GRE Word List
IMPERTINENT
given to or characterized by insolent rudeness
The meaning of the word impertinent is given to or characterized by insolent rudeness.
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| potent | having or wielding force, authority, or influence : powerful |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| affinity | relationship by marriage |
| wizardry | the art or practices of a wizard : sorcery |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| liability | the quality or state of being liable |
| beneficial | producing good results or helpful effects : conferring benefits (see benefit |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
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