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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| minute | the 60th part of an hour of time : 60 seconds |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| chafe | irritate |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| reverie | daydream |
| bereft | deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something |