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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| trunk | the main stem of a tree apart from limbs and roots |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| bearing | the manner in which one behaves or comports oneself : the manner in which one bears (see bear |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |