GRE Word List
VAIN
having or showing undue or excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements : conceited
The meaning of the word vain is having or showing undue or excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements : conceited.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| conduit | a natural or artificial channel through which something (such as a fluid) is conveyed |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| forensic | belonging to, used in, or suitable to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate |
| prerogative | an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |