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 |
|---|---|
| concurrent | operating or occurring at the same time |
| bid | to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| viand | an item of food |
| scrupulous | having moral integrity : acting in strict regard for what is considered right or proper |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| cryptic | secret |
| transition | a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| paltry | inferior |