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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|---|---|
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
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| rebate | to reduce the force or activity of : diminish |
| incoherent | lacking coherence: such as |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
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