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 |
|---|---|
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |
| jurisdiction | the power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law |