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vaunt

verbCommon GRE wordMore V words

to boast about or praise something excessively

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Vaunt in a sentence

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The company vaunted its environmental record while quietly polluting nearby rivers.

Synonyms
boastbragflaunttout
Antonyms
downplaydeprecate

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Verbal · Text Completion

Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.

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Vaunt (verb) means to boast about or praise something excessively
Here is vaunt used in an example sentence: "The company vaunted its environmental record while quietly polluting nearby rivers."
Common synonyms for vaunt include boast, brag, flaunt, tout.
Antonyms of vaunt include downplay, deprecate.
Vaunt is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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