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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unwarranted | lacking adequate or official support : not warranted : unjustified |
| qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |
| overweening | arrogant |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| buttress | a projecting structure of masonry or wood for supporting or giving stability to a wall or building |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| comeback | a sharp or witty reply : retort |