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.

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gyroscopea 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
malleablecapable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers
implausiblenot plausible : provoking disbelief
interminablehaving or seeming to have no end
impaleto pierce with or as if with something pointed
turncoatone who switches to an opposing side or party
slitherto slide on or as if on a loose gravelly surface
soarto fly aloft or about
communalof or relating to one or more communes
enjointo direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition