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 |
|---|---|
| evoke | to call forth or up: such as |
| fell | skin |
| intermediary | mediator |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| rational | having reason or understanding |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| sidetrack | siding |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |