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 |
|---|---|
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| fit | acceptable from a particular viewpoint (as of competence or morality) : proper |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| pallet | a straw-filled tick or mattress |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| sleek | slick |