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 |
|---|---|
| goad | to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
| nausea | a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| eloquence | discourse marked by force and persuasiveness |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| detraction | a lessening of reputation or esteem especially by envious, malicious, or petty criticism : belittling |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| induce | to move by persuasion or influence |