Word of the Day: VAUNTED

Praised or paraded

vaunted (adj) - widely praised or boasted about [vawn-tid]

BREAKDOWN: VAUNT- (boast) + -ED (made or done)

• vaunt means to boast or brag

• vaunting means marked by pride or given to boasting

See also: evanescent

“It was as if the press in America, for all its vaunted independence, were a great colonial animal, an animal made up of countless clustered organisms responding to a central nervous system.” —Tom Wolfe