GRE Word List
BRAGGART
a loud arrogant boaster
The meaning of the word braggart is a loud arrogant boaster.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |
| recast | to cast again |
| discourse | verbal interchange of ideas |
| benison | blessing |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |