GRE Word List

VIRTUE

conformity to a standard of right : morality

The meaning of the word virtue is conformity to a standard of right : morality.

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mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
florescencea state or period of flourishing
precociousexceptionally early in development or occurrence
irrevocablenot possible to revoke : unalterable
coronera usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner
introspectivecharacterized by examination of one's own thoughts and feelings : thoughtfully reflective : employing, marked by, or tending to introspection
galvanizeto subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically
automatona mechanism that is relatively self-operating
compensatoryto be equivalent to : counterbalance
distantseparated in space : away