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 |
|---|---|
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| increment | the amount or degree by which something changes |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| oblivious | lacking remembrance, memory, or mindful attention |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| creep | to move along with the body prone and close to the ground |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| orthodox | conforming to established doctrine especially in religion |