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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|---|---|
| pastiche | a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| protract | to prolong in time or space : continue |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| environ | encircle |
| remit | to lay aside (a mood or disposition) partly or wholly |
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |