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 |
|---|---|
| mammal | any 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 |
| florescence | a state or period of flourishing |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke : unalterable |
| coroner | a 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 |
| introspective | characterized by examination of one's own thoughts and feelings : thoughtfully reflective : employing, marked by, or tending to introspection |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| distant | separated in space : away |