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 |
|---|---|
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| perfidious | of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy |
| nocturnal | of, relating to, or occurring in the night |
| pending | during |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| blurt | to utter abruptly and impulsively |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |