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 |
|---|---|
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |