"Give them the gift of words"

Apr
12th

Today's vocabulary building word – Virulent

Categories: Vocabulary Building Words |

Virulent” means “highly infectious and deadly.” The Ebola virus, which kills over half of the people who catch it, is a virulent disease. Let’s hope that particular illness doesn’t become pandemic.

Example: “The pandemic of 1918 was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza, resulting in the deaths of over 20 million people worldwide.”