GRE Word List
EGOTISTICAL
characterized by egotism : having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self-importance
The meaning of the word egotistical is characterized by egotism : having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self-importance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| institute | something that is instituted: such as |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| decipher | decode |
| niggle | trifle |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |