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 |
|---|---|
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| application | an act of applying: |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| indissoluble | not dissoluble |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| enrapture | to fill with delight |
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |