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 |
|---|---|
| aloof | removed or distant either physically or emotionally |
| throes | pang |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| climactic | of, relating to, or constituting a climax |
| disparage | to depreciate (see depreciate |
| wan | suggestive of poor health : sickly |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |