新GRE詞匯復(fù)習(xí)資料:hauteur

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hauteur: (n.) 傲慢; 自大; haughtiness in bearing and attitude; arrogance
    Syn: supercilious, imperious
    hauteur <>humility, humbleness
    fawn : hauteur
    supercilious : hauteur
    【考法1】n.傲慢,自大: haughtiness in bearing and attitude; arrogance
    【例】 he looked at her with the hauteur of someone who is accustomed to being instantly obeyed 他看著她,帶著向來被順從慣了的傲慢。
    【 近 】 bumptiousness, imperiousness, peremptoriness, pomposity, presumptuousness, pretentiousness,
    superciliousness, superiority
    【反】 humility, humbleness, modesty, unassumingness, unpretentiousness 謙虛
    selfdepreciate : swagger 自貶:吹噓