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 |
|---|---|
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| catechism | oral instruction |
| figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| breed | to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| entrance | power or permission to enter : admission |