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 |
|---|---|
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| exigency | that which is required in a particular situation |
| capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |