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SSAT 2 - Harmful
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abet | Encourage or assist wrongdoing - help commit crime |
| alienate | Make hostile - cause to become unfriendly |
| calamity | Disaster - terrible event |
| decimate | Destroy large portion - severely reduce |
| degrade | Lower in quality - reduce to lower state |
| detrimental | Causing harm - harmful to wellbeing |
| exacerbate | Make worse - intensify problem |
| impunity | Exemption from punishment - freedom from consequences |
| insidious | Operating in subtle, harmful way - gradually damaging |
| malevolent | Wishing evil on others - malicious |
| malicious | Intending harm - deliberately hurtful |
| menace | Threatening person or thing - source of danger |
| nefarious | Extremely wicked - villainously evil |
| notorious | Known widely for bad reasons - infamous |
| noxious | Harmful or poisonous - toxic |
| oppression | Cruel exercise of power - unjust control |
| perjury | Lying under oath - false testimony |
| reprehensible | Deserving condemnation - morally wrong |
| tarnish | Lose luster - become discolored |
| vice | Immoral behavior - wicked habit |