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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pragmaticrelating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic
automatona mechanism that is relatively self-operating
ignoblecharacterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness
titillateto excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation
virulentmarked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course
dodderingfeeble
cursoryrapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty
unsavoryinsipid
proletariana member of the proletariat
hazymade 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