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 |
|---|---|
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| politic | political |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| inquisitor | one who inquires or makes inquisition |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| droop | to hang or incline downward |