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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| demure | reserved |
| muster | a representative specimen (see specimen |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| tinge | a slight staining or suffusing shade or color |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |