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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| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
| flicker | to move irregularly or unsteadily : flutter |
| periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| lope | an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |