effrontery

1. Brazen boldness
2. Presumptuousness
3. Barefaced audacity

To learn the word ‘effrontery’ relate it the word ‘front’. Now a person who always remains in front usually does so by ignoring others and due to his arrogance and does not walk with others but ahead of them, such a person shows audacious and arrogant behavior and hence it can be used to recall the word ‘effrontery’.

1. The obvious effrontery to the court should not go unnoticed.
2. What began as a curious rivalry became, in the racial climate of thetime, an effrontery.
3. He had the effrontery to claim he was the son of God and the king of the Jews.