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 |
|---|---|
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| legend | a story coming down from the past |
| random | a haphazard course |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |
| lavish | expending or bestowing profusely : prodigal |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |