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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| overt | open to view : manifest |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| slink | to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal |
| impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |
| toga | the loose outer garment worn in public by citizens of ancient Rome |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| virtual | being such in essence or effect though not formally recognized or admitted |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |