GRE Word List
NOISOME
noxious
The meaning of the word noisome is noxious.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| confidant | one to whom secrets are entrusted |
| incriminate | to charge with or show evidence or proof of involvement in a crime or fault |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| raconteur | a person who excels in telling anecdotes |
| beget | to procreate as the father : sire |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |