GRE Word List
HAUGHTINESS
blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior
The meaning of the word haughtiness is blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
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| approbation | commendation |
| 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 |
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