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Affected Adj Artificial Pretended Assumed Order Impress Mannerisms

Word affected
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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