GRE Word List
INSULARITY
characteristic of an isolated people
The meaning of the word insularity is characteristic of an isolated people.
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| pedant | one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge |
| calculated | apt |
| indignation | anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean |
| celestial | of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| bereaved | suffering the death of a loved one |
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