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 |
|---|---|
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| equity | justice according to natural law or right |
| virus | any 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 |