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 |
|---|---|
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| rally | to muster for a common purpose |
| filch | to steal secretly or casually |
| sledge | sledgehammer |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| sumptuous | extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent |
| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |