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Boast :: Boast (v. t.) To display vaingloriously.

Verbena :: Verbena (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.

Vauntful :: Vauntful (a.) Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.

Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.

Vain :: Vain (superl.) Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying..

Flimsy :: Flimsy (superl.) Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection..

Waste :: Waste (a.) To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.

Vervain :: Vervain (n.) Any plant of the genus Verbena.

Light :: Light (superl.) Easy to admit influence; inconsiderate; easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile; as, a light, vain person; a light mind..

Vainness :: Vainness (n.) The quality or state of being vain.

Vanity :: Vanity (n.) The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity.

Ineffectually :: Ineffectually (adv.) Without effect; in vain.

Frustrate :: Frustrate (a.) Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.

Dash :: Dash (n.) A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash..

Stud :: Stuck-up (a.) Self-important and supercilious, /onceited; vain; arrogant..

Chauvinism :: Chauvinism (n.) Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism..

Chimerical :: Chimerical (a.) Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects..

Fanfaronade :: Fanfaronade (n.) A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.

Empty :: Empty (superl.) Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc..

Vain :: Vain (n.) Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain.

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