GRE Word List

CHAUVINIST

an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex

The meaning of the word chauvinist is an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex.

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fatalisma doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them
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