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 |
|---|---|
| incredulity | the quality or state of being incredulous : disbelief |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| metrical | of, relating to, or composed in meter |