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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WordMeaning
rotethe use of memory usually with little intelligence
conscripta conscripted person (such as a military recruit)
anticlimaxthe usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea
bristlinga short stiff coarse hair or filament
circumlocutionthe use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea
rarefiedbeing less dense
gnarledfull of knots or gnarls : knotty
annealto heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle
equityjustice according to natural law or right
virusany of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that are usually regarded as nonliving extremely complex molecules, that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semipermeable membrane, that are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals, and plants