GRE Word List
INSUBORDINATION
disobedient to authority
The meaning of the word insubordination is disobedient to authority.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| corporeal | having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as |
| awe | an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime |
| ravage | an act or practice of ravaging |
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
| ecliptic | of or relating to the ecliptic or an eclipse |
| meddlesome | given to meddling |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |