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 |
|---|---|
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| fetid | having a heavy offensive smell |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| skirmish | a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements |
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue |
| exegesis | exposition |
| oatmeal | meal made from oats |
| podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |