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 |
|---|---|
| orator | one who delivers an oration |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| embroider | to ornament with needlework |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| miscreant | unbelieving |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| limbo | an abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| subordinate | placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position : inferior |