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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| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| fanfare | a short and lively sounding of trumpets |