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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| legislature | a body of persons having the power to legislate |
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| demented | mad |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| repellent | serving or tending to drive away or ward off |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| formidable | causing fear, dread, or apprehension |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |