GRE Word List
DELETERIOUS
harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way
The meaning of the word deleterious is harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| asunder | into parts |
| debonair | suave |
| conceit | favorable opinion |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| lackadaisical | lacking life, spirit, or zest : languid |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |