brazen - SAT Word

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brazen 
  ( SAT Prep - Sample Word )
This word "brazen" often comes up in the SAT. Of the choices below which is the closest in meaning?
unashamed
ignore
donate
overstress




Detailed description and alternate definitions of the word 'brazen':
  To face or undergo with bold self-assurance.
  Made of brass.
  Marked by flagrant and insolent audacity.
  Having a loud, usually harsh, resonant sound.
  Resembling brass, as in color or strength.

Synonyms of word 'brazen' :
 insolent
 bald-faced
 barefaced
 brassy
 bodacious
 audacious
 brazen-faced


Usage of the word 'brazen' in Sentences :
  brazen attempt to exclude the CPGB.
  brazen enough to admit it openly, through denial.
  brazen serpent.
  brazen enough to admit it openly, through denial.
  There's just no need to ever be quite so brazen with cushions.
  brazen examples of the double intent referred to above.
  In the manner of buttons they are quite hard, quite brazen.
  brazen brow, as witches do on broomsticks now.
  The attempt is now brazen; it used to be surreptitious.
  brazen liars which fill much of the Tory party.
  The New Ugly Face of Domination Power is increasingly brazen.
  brazen attitude in something so tiny?
  brazen cheek of the man and his ilk never ceases to amaze me.

Usage of the word 'brazen' in popular media :
Washington Post   —
 the inherrent conflict of interest is so brazen that even fdr was opposed to public sector unionism on principle." .... read more ››

Wall Street Journal   —
 chevron lawyer randy mastro disagreed, saying it "would be a brazen act of contempt for any such attempts to be made.... read more ››




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