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 |
|---|---|
| junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| hubris | exaggerated pride or self-confidence |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| cardiologist | the study of the heart and its action and diseases |
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |