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 |
|---|---|
| premonition | previous notice or warning : forewarning |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| render | to melt down |
| disarray | a lack of order or sequence : confusion |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |