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Mrs Hahn RWS
Vocabulary Sat #3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Arrogant | making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights , self-importance, insolently proud |
| Braggart | bragging,boastful |
| Complacent | pleased especially with oneself or one's advantages situation, often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self satisfied |
| Contemptuous | showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful |
| Disdainful | full of or showing disdain (despise, look upon); scornful |
| Egotistical | given to talking about oneself; vain; boastful; opinionated, 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;deriving erotic gratification from admiration of his or her own physical or mental attributes. |
| ostentatious | characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others; intended to attract notice |
| presumptuous | characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission; unwarrantedly or impertinently bold; forward |
| supercilious | haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression. |
| swagger | to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air. |