November 13 - 19, 2006

Pernicious

adjective 

1 Destructive; ruinous; fatal. 2 wicked, evil.

perniciously adv perniciousness n.

[Latin perniciosus from pernicies ruin from nex necis death]

Source: The Canadian Oxford Dictionary

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