GRE Word List
SWAGGER
to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner
The meaning of the word swagger is to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner.
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|---|---|
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| billow | wave |
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| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| wrinkle | a small ridge or furrow especially when formed on a surface by the shrinking or contraction of a smooth substance : crease |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| frolic | full of fun : merry |