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 |
|---|---|
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| violate | break |
| mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| dynamic | marked by usually continuous and productive activity or change |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |