Word of the Day – Virgin

• Noun:  Virgin
  1. a person who has never had sexual intercourse
  2. a person who is naive, innocent, or inexperienced, especially in a particular context.    “a political virgin”
  3. Entomology – a female insect that produces eggs without being fertilized.
• Adjective:
  1. being, relating to, or appropriate for a virgin.    “his virgin bride”
  2. not yet touched, used, or exploited. “a virgin forest”
•  Synonyms:
  1. chaste
  2. virginal
  3. celibate
  4. abstinent
  5. unused
  6. untouched
  7. innocent
• Usage:
  1. “My soul flits away into the virgin forests and to the savannas. All is beautiful.” ~~ from Les Miserable by Victor Hugo
• Encountered:
  1. I used the word at work in the sense of being inexperienced; “I was a virgin at picking at people until Chris taught me how.”  They ran away from me like I had said something pornographic.

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