This week's theme
Words to describe people

This week's words
lubricious
diffident
virulent
convivial
orgulous

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PRONUNCIATION:

(VIR-yuh-luhnt, -uh-)

MEANING:

adjective
1. Bitterly hostile.
2. Highly infective.
3. Extremely dangerous.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin virus (poison). Earliest documented use: 1400.

USAGE:

"In those later years, Fred Koch also became a major benefactor and board member of the John Birch Society, the rabidly anti-communist organization founded in 1958 by candy magnate and virulent racist Robert Welch."
Tim Dickinson; Inside the Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire; Rolling Stone (New York); Sep 24, 2014. (Permalink)

See more usage examples of virulent in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

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