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 |
|---|---|
| poise | balance |
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| representational | one that represents: such as |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| hegemony | preponderant influence or authority over others : domination |
| gnome | maxim |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| avalanche | a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice |