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 |
|---|---|
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| feline | of, relating to, or affecting cats or the cat family |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
| rasp | to rub with something rough |
| nexus | connection |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| plumb | a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction |
| defer | put off |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |