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pernicious - Dictionary definition and meaning for pernicious

PERNICIOUS

(adj.) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
"glaucoma is an insidious disease", "a subtle poison"
synonyms : insidious , subtle
He was completely unaware of the pernicious disease eating him up from inside. -added by naila_inlas

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insidious pest eating tomato.
(adj.) exceedingly harmful
synonyms : baneful , deadly , pestilent
She ruined his reputation with her pernicious lies. -added by naila_inlas

Mnemonics for pernicious

(Tag: ) word can be divided like per+nicious..nicious when pronounced sounds like noxious...so noxious.. ..so something harmful.....
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(Tag: ) it has root nec/nox..in it....means to harm..so per(PERTAINING TO)+nIC/NEC..MEANS HARM..SOMETHING PERTAINING TO HARM U.
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(Tag: ) Pernicious sounds like vicious in the end which means very harmful
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(Tag: English) sounds like perish- something that is very destructive will make you perish
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(Tag: Hindi) Kitna samjhaya is ladke ko PER ye NI(nahi) CIOUS(serious) hota hai...Its harmful for him
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(Tag: Sing-songy) Something pern-icious is vi-cious and can do-you-harm...
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(Tag: Book Reference ) [my GRE book defined this as "extremely harmful; potentially causing death" So my mnemonic is: PERhaps we should not picNIC next to PERN's noxIOUS thread. -- ref. to Anne McCathy's Dragon Series.
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