flaunt
to display something ostentatiously in order to provoke envy or admiration
Flaunt in a sentence
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She flaunted her new promotion by arriving at the party in a rented limousine.
Newly tenured, she was careful not to flaunt her status in front of colleagues still awaiting review.
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Verbal · Text Completion
The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
Using “flaunt” well
Flaunt means to display something boastfully to attract envy or admiration. It is frequently confused with flout, which means to disregard a rule openly; you flaunt wealth but flout the law.
More GRE words starting with F
to make up something false in order to deceive
a deliberately false statement or invented account intended to mislead
a person who invents elaborate or untruthful stories
treating serious matters with inappropriate or flippant humor
achieved too easily and therefore superficial or shallow
to make an action or process easier or more achievable
a small, organized group within a larger one, especially one that is in opposition
inclined to form rival groups and provoke internal dissent
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