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 |
|---|---|
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| 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 |
| finite | having definite or definable limits |
| gamut | the whole series of recognized musical notes |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |