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
legislaturea body of persons having the power to legislate
ensueto strive to attain : pursue
dementedmad
reclusemarked by withdrawal from society : solitary
sheafa quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together
repellentserving or tending to drive away or ward off
nonsensewords or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas
formidablecausing fear, dread, or apprehension
cavilto raise trivial and frivolous objection