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 |
|---|---|
| shirk | to go stealthily : sneak |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| potentate | ruler |
| aseptic | preventing infection |
| meretricious | of or relating to a prostitute : having the nature of prostitution |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| deploy | to extend (a military unit) especially in width |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |