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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| cataclysm | flood |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |
| leaven | a substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid |
| courier | messenger |
| humdrum | monotonous |