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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| purported | reputed |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |