GRE Word List
PETULANT
insolent or rude in speech or behavior
The meaning of the word petulant is insolent or rude in speech or behavior.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| pretend | to give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| fraudulent | characterized by, based on, or done by fraud : deceitful |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |