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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WordMeaning
futileserving no useful purpose : completely ineffective
smolderto burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke
mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
convergeto tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet
ecologista branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments
equanimityevenness of mind especially under stress
parishthe ecclesiastical unit of area committed to one pastor
hiatusa break in or as if in a material object : gap
nominalof, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction
vulgarlacking in cultivation, perception, or taste : coarse