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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| carnivorous | subsisting or feeding on animal tissues |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| crest | a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration |
| bolster | a long pillow or cushion |