GRE Word List
INSENSATE
lacking sense or understanding
The meaning of the word insensate is lacking sense or understanding.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| energize | to make energetic, vigorous, or active |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| junket | trip |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |