GRE Word List
INJURIOUS
inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental
The meaning of the word injurious is inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insipid | lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge : dull |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| stupefy | to make stupid, groggy, or insensible |
| gazette | newspaper |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| droop | to hang or incline downward |
| foolhardy | foolishly adventurous and bold : rash |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| nourish | nurture |