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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| overt | open to view : manifest |
| armada | a fleet of warships |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| charm | the chanting or reciting of a magic spell : incantation |
| grapple | the act or an instance of grappling |
| awe | an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |