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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| serpentine | of or resembling a serpent (as in form or movement) |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |