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 |
|---|---|
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| progeny | descendants |
| auxiliary | offering or providing help |
| grate | grating |
| fuss: | trouble or worry over trifles; make nervous; pay too much attention to; N: needless concern or worry (about a trivial thing); anxious nervous condition; display of attention; Ex. make a fuss over the baby |
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| substantiate | to give substance or form to : embody |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |