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 |
|---|---|
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| genteel | having an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| metrical | of, relating to, or composed in meter |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| lampoon | satire |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |