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 |
|---|---|
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| ethos | the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
| blurt | to utter abruptly and impulsively |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |
| sleek | slick |
| accord | to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned |
| compact | predominantly formed or filled : composed |