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 |
|---|---|
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| raspy | harsh |
| alloy | the degree of mixture with base metals : fineness |
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |