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 |
|---|---|
| vain | having or showing undue or excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements : conceited |
| noncommittal | giving no clear indication of attitude or feeling |
| terrestrial | of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants |
| indite | make up |
| levee | a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed |
| indifferent | marked by a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern for something : apathetic |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| fumble | to grope for or handle something clumsily or aimlessly |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |