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 |
|---|---|
| peruse | to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| occlude | to close up or block off : obstruct |
| drivel | nonsense |
| stately | marked by lofty or imposing dignity |
| suppress | to put down by authority or force : subdue |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |