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Gravitas Gra Vih Tas Adjective Behavior Manner Dignified Bit Stiff

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(gra-vih-TAS), adjective

Behavior or manner that is dignified and serious, perhaps even a bit stiff, formal, and pompous.

The GRAVITAS with which Lionel viewed the Harvard-Yale football game was quite amusing to many of us.

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