GRE Word List
HUBRIS
exaggerated pride or self-confidence
The meaning of the word hubris is exaggerated pride or self-confidence.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| titillate | to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| doddering | feeble |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| unsavory | insipid |
| proletarian | a member of the proletariat |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |