GRE Word List
HUBRIS
exaggerated pride or self-confidence
The meaning of the word hubris is exaggerated pride or self-confidence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tactful | having or showing tact |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| emancipate | to free from restraint, control, or the power of another |
| ostentatious | attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| elusive | tending to elude: such as |
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |