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 |
|---|---|
| abscond | to depart secretly and hide oneself |
| natty | trimly neat and tidy : smart |
| hirsute | hairy |
| insubordination | disobedient to authority |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
| insolence | the quality or state of being insolent |
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |