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 |
|---|---|
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| impuissance | weakness |
| skeptic | an adherent or advocate of skepticism |
| sartorial | of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |