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 |
|---|---|
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
| resurge | to undergo a resurgence |
| archives | a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| drivel | nonsense |
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |