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 |
|---|---|
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| jaded | fatigued by overwork : exhausted |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |
| balmy | having the qualities of balm : soothing |