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SAT vocab 3
Mrs.Hahn Reading and Writing Strategies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| arrogant | Making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights, overbearingly assuming,and insolently proud. |
| braggart | A person who does a lot of bragging. |
| complacent | pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation. |
| contemptous | showing or expressing contempt or disdain, scornful,disrespectful. |
| disdainful | full of or showing disdain, scornful. |
| egostistical | indifferent to the well-being of others, selfish. |
| haughty | disdainfully proud, snobbish, scornfully arrogant, supercilious. |
| insolent | boldly rude or disrespectful, contemptuously impertinent,insulting. |
| narcissist | a person who is overly self-involved, and often vain and selfish. |
| ostentatious | characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others. |
| presumptous | full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought. |
| pretentious | characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved. |
| supercilious | haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression. |
| swagger | swaggering manner, conduct, or walk, ostentatious display of arrogance and conceit. |