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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| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
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| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |
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