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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| acknowledge | to recognize the rights, authority, or status of |
| exhale | to rise or be given off as vapor |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| hypochondriac | hypochondriacal |