GRE Word List
VIRULENT
marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course
The meaning of the word virulent is marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| turncoat | one who switches to an opposing side or party |
| slither | to slide on or as if on a loose gravelly surface |
| soar | to fly aloft or about |
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |