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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lumberto move ponderously
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gorgea narrow passage through land
interminablehaving or seeming to have no end
etymologythe 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
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appositehighly pertinent or appropriate : apt
anticlimaxthe usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea