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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|---|---|
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
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| infirmity | the quality or state of being infirm |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
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