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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| panacea | a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| plait | pleat |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| deliberate | to think about or discuss issues and decisions carefully |
| disport | sport |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |