GRE Word List
INSUBORDINATION
disobedient to authority
The meaning of the word insubordination is disobedient to authority.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| facade | the front of a building |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |