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 |
|---|---|
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| brink | edge |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| quizzical | comically quaint |