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 |
|---|---|
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| score | twenty |
| fusion | the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| fleece | the coat of wool covering a wool-bearing animal (such as a sheep) |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| ulcer | a break in skin or mucous membrane with loss of surface tissue, disintegration and necrosis of epithelial tissue, and often pus |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| healthful | beneficial to health of body or mind |