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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WordMeaning
wiltloose freshness; droop
sepulchera place of burial : tomb
shiftto exchange for or replace by another : change
rebateto reduce the force or activity of : diminish
incoherentlacking coherence: such as
quackto make the characteristic cry of a duck
petrifyto convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter
factiona party or group (as within a government) that is often contentious or self-seeking : clique
ungainlylacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy
melancholydepression of spirits : dejection