Meaning of haughty, amok, appalling, dejectedly, and lamented

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 haughty - arrogant

The haughty manager didn't believe that any of his subordinates could ever leave an insight as brilliant his own.


amok - frenzied, behaves uncontrollably and disruptively 

whenever the bowl haircut teen - idol went, his legions of screaming fans ran through the streets amok, hoping for a glance at his boyish face.


appalling - astounding, awful

it is appalling to realize the number of pathetic people who are hampered and made miserable by the malady popularly called the inferiority complex.   


dejectedly - disappointed, or without hope

I have a terrible disbelief in myself he said dejectedly " I have no confidence. 


lamented - deplore, bewail, bemoan 

in fact " he lamented " i am just about sunk. 


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