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 |
|---|---|
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| parasite | an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host (see host |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |