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boast
What does boast mean?
boast (verb): to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use boast in a sentence?
How do you pronounce boast?
/boʊst/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does boast come from?
From Middle English bosten, from bost (“boast, glory, noise, arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity”), probably of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“inflated, swollen, puffed up, proud, arrogant, bad”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of boast?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Test yourself: do you know “boast”?
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What does “boast” mean?
draw someone's attention away from something
Not quite: that's what distract means.
to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself
Right! That's what “boast” means.
to cook (something) in an oven (for someone)
Not quite: that's what bake means.
to resist or endure (something) successfully
Not quite: that's what withstand means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “boast”?
brag
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feel
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show
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give
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