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 |
|---|---|
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| adhere | to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing |
| gazette | newspaper |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| benign | of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| devoid | being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| celestial | of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity |
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |