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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| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
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| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| hortatory | hortative |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| feature | the structure, form, or appearance especially of a person |