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 |
|---|---|
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| tend | to exhibit an inclination or tendency : conduce |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| kinetic | of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith |
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |
| inundate | overwhelm |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |