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 |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| bemused | marked by confusion or bewilderment : dazed |
| peripheral | of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery or surface part |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| knave | a tricky deceitful fellow |