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 |
|---|---|
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| coda | a concluding musical section that is formally distinct from the main structure |
| glutinous | having the quality of glue : gummy |
| seasoned | a time characterized by a particular circumstance or feature |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |