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 |
|---|---|
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| ethos | the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| cherubic | an order of angels see celestial hierarchy |
| cardiologist | the study of the heart and its action and diseases |
| fecundity | fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific |
| bereft | deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |