GRE Word List
INSENSATE
lacking sense or understanding
The meaning of the word insensate is lacking sense or understanding.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| levy | the imposition or collection of an assessment |
| drivel | nonsense |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| dais | a raised platform (as in a hall or large room) |