GRE Word List
INSULARITY
characteristic of an isolated people
The meaning of the word insularity is characteristic of an isolated people.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| bane | a source of harm or ruin : curse |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| lancet | a sharp-pointed and commonly 2-edged surgical instrument used to make small incisions |
| lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| lewd | obscene |