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 |
|---|---|
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| manipulate | to treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| bereft | deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |