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   vaunt

   /vɔːnt/

   verb

   • 1. boast about or praise (something), especially excessively: "he was initially vaunted by the West for his leadership of the country"

   noun

   • 1. a boast. archaic

   Word Origin late Middle English: the noun a shortening of obsolete avaunt ‘boasting, a boast’; the verb (originally in the sense ‘use boastful language’) from Old French vanter, from late Latin vantare, based on Latin vanus ‘vain, empty’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. vaunter noun

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • V

     4

   • A

     1

   • U

     1

   • N

     1

   • T

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