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 |
|---|---|
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| palatable | agreeable to the palate or taste |
| farce | stuff |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| iota | an infinitesimal amount : jot |
| benefit | something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being : advantage |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
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