SUPREME WORD DU JOUR: VIRULENT

SUPREME WORD DU JOUR:     VIRULENT

 

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.

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