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
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|---|---|
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
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| resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| clime | climate |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| opportunist | one that is opportunistic or that practices opportunism |
| rumble | to make a low heavy rolling sound |