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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liquidateto determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts)
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enlistto secure the support and aid of : employ in advancing an interest
leavena substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid
libidoinstinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity
warblea melodious succession of low pleasing sounds
murkycharacterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke
realmkingdom
reprobatean unprincipled or depraved person : scoundrel
impersonalhaving no personal reference or connection