GRE Word List
EGOISM
a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action
The meaning of the word egoism is a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action.
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| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| consonant | being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |
| pomposity | pompous demeanor, speech, or behavior |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| blowhard | an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart |