arete

The tattoo I didn’t get was going to be the ancient Greek word “arete,” which means, among other things, excellence.

According to Ríos, at the orders of the defendant, the "arete" was put on an elevated area in front of a small graveyard they had dug.

Aristotle sought to rescue rhetoric from its place as a purely instrumental art: the highest rhetorical accomplishment, for Aristotle, was an expression of arete, or virtue.

From this point the route angled steeply upward along a graceful arete of wind-compacted snow that culminated in the South Summit—where I arrived at 11:00 to find a second, even worse bottleneck.

This funky goop, called gloios and thought to contain the essence of arete — valor, excellence — was often funneled into small vials and sold at gyms for medicinal purposes.