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 |
|---|---|
| miscellany | separate writings collected in one volume |
| healthful | beneficial to health of body or mind |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| impregnate | to cause to be filled, imbued, permeated, or saturated |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |