GRE Word List
LOFTY
elevated in character and spirit : noble
The meaning of the word lofty is elevated in character and spirit : noble.
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|---|---|
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| delve | excavate |
| epithet | a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing |
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| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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