GRE Word List

INSIDIOUS

having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle

The meaning of the word insidious is having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle.

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hoaxto trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous
surlymenacing or threatening in appearance
enraptureto fill with delight
misdemeanora crime less serious than a felony (see felony
leonineof, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion
veerto change direction or course
nominalof, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction
implacablenot placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated
officiousvolunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome
mangeany of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange