Vocab-ability–65 (ego = self) – A More Powerful Vocabulary (earn UpVotes with “Vocab Practice” exercise)

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MY VOCAB PRACTICE.
1.Ego:
One should have well defined ego of life..
2.Egotist:
One shoud be an egotist to get success in life.
3.Egomaniac:
I did not cooperate to my neighbour because he was an egomaniac..
4.Egoist:
My friend is an egoist as he always cares of himself..
5.Egocentric:
My 3 year old little brother is egocentric, always concerned with when he will get next fed..

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Ego
    He was a man with full of Ego.

  2. Egotist
    Pakistani Politicians are Egotist, They just think for themselves.

  3. Egomaniac
    Egomaniac Behavior Of politicians are making people hate them.

  4. Egoist
    Nawaz Sharif Is a Egoist Politician.

  5. Egocentric
    Egocentric Nature of a person makes other hate him.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE.

  1. Ego
    His ego was huge comparing with his reputation.

  2. Egotist
    She was always starting to act different when she was an egotist.

  3. Egomaniac
    It was impossible to have a cool conversation with an egomaniac.

  4. Egoist
    When it comes to work in a team, it's hard to succeed with an egoist.

  5. Egocentric
    Being such an egocentric, it was impossible for Mark to make new friends.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Ego
    Every person is responsible for his own ego.
  2. Egotist
    When there are egotist people in any organization, it can't progress well.
  3. Egomaniac
    He is an egomaniac, he keeps praising himself all the time.
  4. Egoist
    I don't like the egoist people who keeps telling their own stories and doesn't talk about other people.
  5. Egocentric
    There exists a lot of egocentric girls in my university who keeps believing they are the cutest girls of the town.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Ego
    Nowadays Ego breaks the relationships.
  2. Egotist
    People don't like the person with egotist nature.
  3. Egomaniac
    Egomaniac person always thinks of himself.
  4. Egoist
    My Friend Ali is an Egoist.
  5. Egocentric
    Egocentric nature of a person keeps other's away from him.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Ego
    My grandfather Ego was famous in Who family.

  2. Egotist
    My Grandfather was a Egotist man.

  3. Egomaniac
    Egomaniac Behavior of My grandfather keeps him away from us.

  4. Egoist
    I examined you and found that you are an egoist person.

  1. Egocentric
    Mr.jacobs always plays a role of Egocentric person in the movies.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Ego
    People who live dominated by the ego are deceived
  2. Egotist
    The mayor of Caracas is an egotist, he is not interested in the problems of the inhabitants
  3. Egomaniac
    The former president of Venezuela was an egomaniac
  4. Egoist
    My brother is an egoist, he does not share his things with me
  5. Egocentric
    My son is sometimes a bit egocentric.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Ego:
    My ego comes alive when my teacher attempts to make a correction when I’m doing something wrong.
  2. Egotist:
    Stay away from the egotist asshole who sits in the corner talking about all of his “grand” accomplishments.
  3. Egomaniac:
    When it comes to explaining to beginners about how to make the jump on one’s bike, you are an egomaniac.
  4. Egoist:
    Is being on egoist a bad thing if it saves me from a life of drugs and alcohol?
  5. Egocentric:
    To make it in the world of steemit, your egocentric style is going to keep you from staking a valuable claim to the rewards this platform has to offer.

Re #4, many egoists also indulge in drugs and alcohol. :-)

True. It is a way to cover-up issues one doesn't want to look at. Then they will say the drugs and alcohol made them that way.

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Ego
    I used to let my ego control relationships, but now that I am more mature, my ego is still pretty big!

  2. Egotist
    I always thought that those women pornstars that shoot videos with a gangbang of 10 men must be egotists, however it is just a job where they don't really choose.

  3. Egomaniac
    An egomaniac partner could have badly damaged my self-esteem and self-respect.

  4. Egoist
    I always used egoist with a negative meaning, but it really depends from the context: sometimes somehow it is positive to be egoist.

  5. Egocentric
    Actors work on themselves, their mimic, their expression, their voice timber and they generally own histrionic egocentric personality.


Correct about porn stars and actors.

And egoists are in no way as horrible as egotists!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Ego
    He is a man of versatile ego.
  2. Egotist
    More or less every politician is an egotist.
  3. Egomaniac
    You should be aware of the egomaniac people so they could not waste your time.
  4. Egoist
    My friend is a big egoist, he is his own best friend.
  5. Egocentric
    Although I was sparing enough share for my brother, still he was blaming me to be an egocentric.


I like your #2, as there's not much wrong with egoists. And many people should make friends with themselves!!

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Ego
    He's my alter ego we go everywhere together.
  2. Egotist
    You need to be an egotist to succeed in politics.
  3. Egomaniac
    Don't cooperate with this guy, he is an egomaniac.
  4. Egoist
    Mr. Haris was utter egoist of bricks and mortar.
  5. Egocentric
    I thought it was forgivable, egocentric but forgivable.

Plagiarism Alert. #5 is plagiarized from here. ... https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/forgivable

You wasted your effort. Again.

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