Word | affected |
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Part of Speech | ADJ. |
Definition | artificial; pretended; assumed in order to impress. |
Sentence | His affected mannerisms - his "Harvard" accent, his air of boredom, his flaunting of obscure foreign words - irritated many of us who had known him before he had gone away to school. |
Related Words | affectation, N. |
Tags: psat
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