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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |
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| outfit | the act of fitting out or equipping (as for a voyage or expedition) |
| healthy | enjoying good health |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| abscond | to depart secretly and hide oneself |
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |