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 |
|---|---|
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| humane | marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans or animals |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |