GRE Word List
DETRIMENTAL
obviously harmful : damaging
The meaning of the word detrimental is obviously harmful : damaging.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| inquisitive | given to examination or investigation |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |
| amorous | strongly moved by love and especially sexual love |
| conflagration | fire |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| disclose | to make known or public |
| hue_and_cry | outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule |