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 |
|---|---|
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |
| servitude | a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life |
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |
| slither | to slide on or as if on a loose gravelly surface |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| treatise | a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached |
| endear | to cause to become beloved or admired |
| indecision | a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |