GRE Word List
DETRIMENTAL
obviously harmful : damaging
The meaning of the word detrimental is obviously harmful : damaging.
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|---|---|
| homely | suggestive or characteristic of a place of residence or home |
| indefatigable | incapable of being fatigued : untiring |
| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |
| brand | a charred piece of wood |
| jaunt | a usually short journey or excursion undertaken especially for pleasure |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
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