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 |
|---|---|
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| fester | to generate pus |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| propellant | capable of propelling |
| swill | wash |
| precinct | a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district |
| persevere | to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement |