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 |
|---|---|
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| trunk | the main stem of a tree apart from limbs and roots |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |
| demented | mad |
| jabber | to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |