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 |
|---|---|
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| enterprise | a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky |
| solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console |
| quisling | traitor |
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| transition | a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another |