GRE Word List
INSOLENCE
the quality or state of being insolent
The meaning of the word insolence is the quality or state of being insolent.
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| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |
| tirade | a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| constituent | a member of a constituency |
| hut | an often small and temporary dwelling of simple construction : shack |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |