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.
Random words
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|---|---|
| definitive | serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| shove | to push along |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |
| covenant | a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| fete | festival |
