GRE Word List
INSUBORDINATION
disobedient to authority
The meaning of the word insubordination is disobedient to authority.
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antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
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guise | a form or style of dress : costume |
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periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |
embrace | to clasp in the arms : hug |
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etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |