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 |
|---|---|
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| submissive | submitting to others |
| eminent | exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position : prominent |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| conformity | correspondence in form, manner, or character : agreement |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| carafe | a bottle with a flaring lip used to hold beverages and especially wine |
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| termination | end in time or existence : conclusion |