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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| mendacious | given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| smart | having or showing a high degree of mental ability : intelligent |
| disingenuous | lacking in candor |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| minion | a servile dependent, follower, or underling |
| magnitude | great size or extent |