GRE Word List

NOISOME

noxious

The meaning of the word noisome is noxious.

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WordMeaning
sonneta fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme
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prattleprate
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idylla simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment
cognizancea distinguishing mark or emblem (such as a heraldic bearing)
aspirantone who aspires
febrilemarked or caused by fever : feverish
mammalany 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
leerysuspicious