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 |
|---|---|
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| abyss | an immeasurably deep gulf or great space |
| addle | rotten |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |
| mundane | of, relating to, or characteristic of the world |