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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |
| insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |