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comportment — your behavior or the way you carry yourself according to your status

comportamiento — the Spanish cognate that means “behavior”

The verb of “comport” is more commonly used in English than the noun of “comportment,” but the noun does exist, although some dictionaries will claim that the word is now obsolete. Both words go back to Latin’s comp…

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