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 |
|---|---|
| occlude | to close up or block off : obstruct |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| implement | a device used in the performance of a task : tool |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |