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 |
|---|---|
| sustain | to give support or relief to |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| regime | regimen |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| pulmonary | of, relating to, affecting, or occurring in the lungs |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |