GRE Word List
NOXIOUS
physically harmful or destructive to living beings
The meaning of the word noxious is physically harmful or destructive to living beings.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| sleek | slick |
| brandish | to shake or wave (something, such as a weapon) menacingly |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| gloat | to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight |