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 |
|---|---|
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| betray | to lead astray |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| kaleidoscope | an instrument containing loose bits of colored material (such as glass or plastic) between two flat plates and two plane mirrors so placed that changes of position of the bits of material are reflected in an endless variety of patterns |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| rococo | rococo work or style |
| expository | of, relating to, or containing exposition |
| passe | past one's prime |