GRE Word List
BRAGGART
a loud arrogant boaster
The meaning of the word braggart is a loud arrogant boaster.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| 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 |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| oaf | a stupid person : boob |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| enterprising | marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |