Word Power Made Easy

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me first

Your attitude to life is simple, direct, and aboveboard---every decision you make is based on the answer to one question: "What's in it for me?" If your selfishness, greed, and ruthless desire for self-advancement hurt other people, that's too bad. "This is a tough world, pal, dog eat dog and all that, and I, for one, am not going to be left behind!" I is the greatest concern and the most overused word in his/her vocabulary. Obnoxious.

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An egoist

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the height of conceit

"Now, let's see. Have you heard about all the money I'm making? Did I tell you about my latest amorous conquest? Let me give you my opinion---I know, because I'm an expert at practically everything!" You are boastful to the point of being obnoxious---you have only one string to your conversational violin, namely, yourself; and on it you play a number of monotonous variations: what you think, what you have done, how good you are, how you would solve the problems of the world, etc. ad nauseam.

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An egotist

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let me help you

You have discovered the secret of true happiness---concering yourself with the welfare of others. Never mind your own interests, how's the next fellow getting along?

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An altruist

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leave me alone

Like a biochemist studying a colony of bacteria under the microscope, you minutely examine your every thought, feeling, and action. Probing, futile questions like " What do other people think of me?, "How do I look?", and "Maybe I shouldn't have said that?" are your constant nagging companions, for you are unable to realize that other people do not spend as much time and energy analyzing you as you think.

You may seem unsocial, yet your greatest desire is to be liked and accepted. You may be shy and quiet, you are often moody and unhappy, and you prefer solitude or at most the company of one person to a crowd. You have an aptitude for creative work and are uncomfortable engaging in activities that require cooperation with other people. You may even be a genius, or eventually turn into one.

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An introvert

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let's do it together

You would be great as a teacher, counselor, administrator, insurance agent. You can always become interested---sincerely, vitally interested--in other people's problems. You're the life of the party, because you never worry about the effect of your actions never inhibit yourself with doubts about dignity or propriety. You are usually happy, generally full of high spirits; you love to be with people---lots of people. Your thoughts, your interests, your whole personality are turned outward.

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An extrovert

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neither extreme

You have both introverted and extroverted tendencies---at different times and on different occasions. Your interest are turned, in about equal proportions, both inward and outward. Indeed, you're normal--in the sense that your personality is like that of most people

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An ambivert

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people are no damn good

Cynical, embittered, suspicious, you hate everyone. (Especially, but never to be admitted, yourself?) The perfectibility of the human race? "Nonsense! No way!" The stupidity, the meanness, and the crookedness of most mortals ("Most? Probably all!")---that is your favorite theme.

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A misanthrope

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women are no damn good

Sometime in your dim past, you were crossed, scorned, or deeply wounded by a woman (a mother, or mother figure, perhaps?). So, now you have a carefully constructed defense against further hurt--- you hate all women.

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A misogynist

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"marriage is an institution---and who wants to live in an institution?"

You will not make the ultimate legal commitment. Members of the opposite sex are great as lovers, roommates, apartment- or house-sharers, but not as lawfully wedded spouses. The ties that bind are too binding for you. You may possibly believe, and possibly, for yourself, be right, that a commitment is deeper and more meaningful if freedom is available without judicial proceedings.

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A misogamist

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"....that the flesh is heir to...."

Self -denial, austerity, lonely contemplation--- these are the characteristics of the good life, so you claim. The simplest food and the least amount of it that will keep body and soul together, combined with abstinence from fleshly, earthly pleasures, will eventually lead to spiritual perfection --- that is your philosphy.

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An ascetic

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a pronoun meaning I. Taken over from Latin as an important English word and is commonly used to denote one's concept of one's self.

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the ego

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You consider yourself the senter of the universe--you are an extreme form of the egoist. Intolerable.

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An egocentric

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You carry egoism to such an extreme that your needs, desires, and interests have become a morbid obsession, a mania. Dangerous and slightly mad.

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An egomaniac
or add -al, a common adjective suffix. The word then becomes: egomaniacal

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others

A latin word meaning other, and a number of valuable English words are built on this root.

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alter

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the philosphy practiced by altruists, comes from one of the variant spellings of Latin alter, other.

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altruism

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actions look toward the benefit of others.

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altruistic

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you skip one and take the other, so to speak, as when you play golf on alternate Saturdays.

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alternate pronounced (AWL'-ter-nayt')

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in a debate, contest, or convention is the other person who will take over if the original choice is unable to attend.

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alternate pronounced (AWL'-ter-net)

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You have no other choice.

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alternative

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other ego. Generally refers to someone with whom you are so close that you both do the same things, think alike, react similarly, and are in temperament, almost mirror images of each other. Any such friend is your other I, your other self.

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alter ego

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A verbal dispute. When you have a violent disagreement, a "fight" with words. and why? Because you have other ideas, plans or opinions than those of the person on the other side of the argument. Stronger then quarrel or dispute--the sentiment is more heated, the disagreement is likely to be angry or even hot-tempered, there may be recourse, if the disputants are human, to profanity or obscenity. The disagreement is more likelier to be over pretty important issues and the word implies tha you get quite excited.

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altercation

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A latin word meaning to turn.

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verto