GRE Word List
VIRILE
having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree
The meaning of the word virile is having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| damn | to condemn to a punishment or fate |
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| nonplus | a state of bafflement or perplexity : quandary |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |