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 |
|---|---|
| liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| overwhelm | upset |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
| felon | one who has committed a felony |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |