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 |
|---|---|
| facilitate | to make easier : help bring about |
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| opportunist | one that is opportunistic or that practices opportunism |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| blue | of the color whose hue is that of the clear sky : of the color blue (see blue |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |