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 |
|---|---|
| mote | a small particle : speck |
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |
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| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| handsome | having a pleasing and usually impressive or dignified appearance |
| peripheral | of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery or surface part |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| gamut | the whole series of recognized musical notes |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |