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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| occident | west |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
| secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |