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 |
|---|---|
| fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |
| exposure | the fact or condition of being exposed: such as |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| diva | prima donna |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| exegesis | exposition |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |