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 |
|---|---|
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| bevy | a large group or collection |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| befuddle | to muddle or stupefy with or as if with drink |
| espionage | the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company |
| swamp | a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| colossal | of, relating to, or resembling a colossus |
| flux | a flowing of fluid from the body: such as |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |