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 |
|---|---|
| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |
| queue | a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| stately | marked by lofty or imposing dignity |
| babble | to talk enthusiastically or excessively |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| intrinsic | belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| dowse | to plunge into water |