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 |
|---|---|
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| solicitous | manifesting or expressing solicitude |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| satirical | of, relating to, or constituting satire |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| gape | to open the mouth wide |