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 |
|---|---|
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| submissive | submitting to others |
| deposition | a testifying especially before a court |
| trunk | the main stem of a tree apart from limbs and roots |
| finery | ornament |
| jumble | to move in a confused or disordered manner |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| amicable | characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable |
| forensic | belonging to, used in, or suitable to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate |