🇬🇧 Arrogance meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Arrogance is when someone acts like they are better, smarter, or more important than everyone else, and they show it by bragging, bossing people around, or not listening to others.

Tim’s arrogance made him declare, “I’m the greatest at everything,” right before he tripped over his own shoelace.

The cookie strutted out of the jar with pure arrogance, saying, “No one could ever eat something as perfect as me,” and then I did.

In a burst of arrogance, the pencil claimed it wrote the whole essay by itself and the brain didn’t help at all.

Because of his arrogance, Max challenged the school principal to a push-up contest and lost on push-up number two.

The word “arrogance” comes from a Latin word meaning “to claim for oneself,” which basically means acting like the world is your personal trophy shelf.

His arrogance filled the room as he pushed past the queue, claiming the best cake. The baker watched the arrogance in every toss of his head; a child’s sandwich fell. Arrogance made him laugh, until the crowd’s silence and a cracked plate cooled his arrogance. He bowed, cheeks hot, his arrogance gone, and offered the cake back.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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