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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nautical | of, relating to, or associated with seamen, navigation, or ships |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| servitude | a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life |
| attire | to put garments on : dress |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| 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 |
| disinter | to take out of the grave or tomb |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| unique | being the only one : sole |