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 |
|---|---|
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |
| rightful | just |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| imbroglio | an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding |
| bequeath | to give or leave by will (see will |
| subsequent | following in time, order, or place |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |