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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sublimate | sublime |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| tread | to step or walk on or over |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| pertinent | having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| dys- | abnormal |
| nurse | a person who cares for the sick or infirm |