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Vocabulary 11
Ms.Hahn RWS
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Baneful | destructive; pernicious: deadly; poisonous: causing destruction or serious damage : bad or evil |
| Deleterious | injurious to health: harmful; injurious: |
| Detrimental | injurious to health: harmful; injurious: damaging or harmful |
| Devious | departing from the most direct way; circuitous; indirect: without definite course; vagrant: departing from the proper or accepted way; roundabout: not straightforward; shifty or crooked: |
| Iniquitous | characterized by injustice or wickedness; wicked; sinful. |
| Malicious | full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: Law. vicious, wanton, or mischievous in motivation or purpose. |
| Nefarious | extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: evil or immoral |
| Odious | deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable. highly offensive; repugnant; disgusting. |
| Ominous | portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: indicating the nature of a future event, for good or evil; having the significance of an omen; being a portent: |
| Pernicious | causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: deadly; fatal: Obsolete. evil; wicked. |
| Rancorous | full of or showing rancor. marked by rancor : deeply malevolent <rancorous envy> |
| Virulent | actively poisonous; intensely noxious: highly ineffective; malignant or deadly. Bacteriology. causing clinical symptoms. violently or spitefully hostile. intensely bitter, spiteful, or malicious: |