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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pedantone who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge
calculatedapt
indignationanger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean
celestialof, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity
muddleto make turbid or muddy
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
bereavedsuffering the death of a loved one
swarthyof a dark color, complexion, or cast
psychosomaticof, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body
paranoiamental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations