Boor GRE Vocabulary Flashcard

Boor GRE Vocabulary Flashcard

/bʊəʳ/ (noun)

Definition

a rude and crude person who does not care about other people’s feelings, philistine, yahoo, churl, loudmouth, oaf, clod, roughneck, ill-mannered person, lout, barbarian, vulgarism, thug, peasant, yob

Example

Rude people or boors are everywhere, so it’s essential for gracious, polite people to know how to deal with them. However, it’s often difficult to maintain your own manners when someone else is disrespectful.

While it would be nice to avoid them altogether, it’s impossible in some situations. So you need to figure out a strategy of how to behave around them. There are quite a few different ways to handle these people.

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Parts of speech

Adjective: boorish

Adverb: boorishly

Noun: boorishness