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 |
|---|---|
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| imprecation | curse |
| maul | a heavy often wooden-headed hammer used especially for driving wedges |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |