GRE Word List
INSENSATE
lacking sense or understanding
The meaning of the word insensate is lacking sense or understanding.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| 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 |
| console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| blowhard | an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart |
| rift | fissure |
| sequester | to set apart : segregate |
| anarchy | absence of government |