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 |
|---|---|
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| dexterous | mentally adroit and skillful : clever |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| incumbent | the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| taunt | to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |