GRE Word List

TRUCULENCE

the quality or state of being truculent

The meaning of the word truculence is the quality or state of being truculent.

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WordMeaning
deprecateto express disapproval of
writsomething written : writing
adaptto make fit (as for a new use) often by modification
abstemiousmarked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol
tremulouscharacterized by or affected with trembling or tremors
burlesquea literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation
buffeta blow especially with the hand
rouea man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure : rake
sportivefrolicsome
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval