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 |
|---|---|
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| blues | low spirits : melancholy |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| fuss: | trouble or worry over trifles; make nervous; pay too much attention to; N: needless concern or worry (about a trivial thing); anxious nervous condition; display of attention; Ex. make a fuss over the baby |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| loft | an upper room or floor : attic |
| knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
| extrovert | a person whose personality is characterized by extroversion : a typically gregarious and unreserved person who enjoys and seeks out social interaction |