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 |
|---|---|
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| debut | a first appearance |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| meretricious | of or relating to a prostitute : having the nature of prostitution |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| dissonance | lack of agreement |