GRE Word List
PETULANT
insolent or rude in speech or behavior
The meaning of the word petulant is insolent or rude in speech or behavior.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| labyrinth | a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| compartment | a separate division or section |
| unruly | not readily ruled, disciplined, or managed |
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
| fulsome | characterized by abundance : copious |