GRE Word List
VAUNTED
highly or widely praised or boasted about
The meaning of the word vaunted is highly or widely praised or boasted about.
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|---|---|
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
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| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
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| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
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| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |