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 |
|---|---|
| dictum | a noteworthy statement: such as |
| melee | a confused struggle |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| rigor | harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment : severity |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| maxim | a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |