Vocabulary : Proud to Prove

Proud : Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense ;; Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous. ;; Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country. ;; Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious. ;; Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals.
Proudish : Somewhat proud.
Proudling : A proud or haughty person.
Proudly : In a proud manner; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily; arrogantly; boastfully.
Proudness : The quality of being proud; pride.

Proustite : A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.
Provable : Capable of being proved; demonstrable.
Provand : Alt. of Proant
Provant : To supply with provender or provisions; to provide for. ;; Provided for common or general use, as in an army; hence, common in quality; inferior.
Prove : To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure. ;; To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence. ;; To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will. ;; To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer. ;; To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved. ;; To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page. ;; To make trial; to essay. ;; To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false. ;; To succeed; to turn out as expected.

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