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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| reaper | one that reaps |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| physiological | of or relating to physiology |
| cryptic | secret |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |