GRE Word List
EGOTISM
excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun
The meaning of the word egotism is excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bulk | magnitude |
| callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |
| transcendental | transcendent |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| invert | to reverse in position, order, or relationship |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |