GRE Word List
VEHEMENT
marked by forceful energy : powerful
The meaning of the word vehement is marked by forceful energy : powerful.
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wisp | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |
complaisant | marked by an inclination to please or oblige |
equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |
prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
animosity | a strong feeling of dislike or hatred : ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude |
toga | the loose outer garment worn in public by citizens of ancient Rome |
mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |