GRE Word List
IMPUDENCE
the quality or state of being impudent
The meaning of the word impudence is the quality or state of being impudent.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |
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| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |