vocabulary lesson 3

   Today we will take root word understand its meaning and from it will learn other words.                        

                     Root word: Ego
                     Meaning: ego means I.

Words from Ego are :

1) Egoist: Egoist is a person who thinks of his benefits in everything. he would find out his profits and benefits first. selfish personality. There is always " I " in his mind before doing anything.

                            Story 

Once in a village, there lived a farmer who remained ill. His condition was critical and there was no one to help him. He had a land and house as his property but had taken a loan from a rich person of the village keeping his land as mortgage. Even knowing about his critical condition that rich person asked the farmer to repay all the money he took from him else he would take his house. The farmer had only one day to repay his money and the only source of income was farming his land. He told his problem to one of his friend. His friend was clever, he made a plan . He managed to spread the news that the land of that ill farmer is a golden land . There are many gold coins hidden there. Hearing this the rich person farmed whole land  overnight and found nothing . He understood that there was nothing hidden there. And understood how his greed made him farm the whole land. The farmer by earned money selling crops after sometime and repaid loan money.

Thus the person was egoist . He thought of his benefits only.



2) Egotist :  Egotist is a person who considers himself as supreme or self-absorbed , self-love. (अहंकारी)
Some people talk only about what they can do, how good they are at all things , and  make themselves the center of all topics, they are known as an egotist.

                                Story 

         The Famous proverb slow and steady wins the race best depicts the egotist rabbit.

                   In the story  rabbit challenges  Tortoise  that he could never win the race as  tortoise is very slow. He considered himself faster and stronger than  tortoise. He Underestimated tortoise and lost the race. Thus his egotist  behaviour that he is best and he will easily win the race even if he rests made him lose the race

                           Narcissus

              You can also refer story of narcissus who loved himself so much that he kept on looking at himself and his self obsession  killed him.

similarly some other words such as

 1 )Alter Ego :  Ego is I and alter is another. Thus this word means one's another self Or a clone of  that person.

We generally say  my friend is my  alter ego  . Mostly friends share the common interest, qualities and are sometimes similar in appearances. So we say we are alter ego of each-other.


Find other words which have ego word in it and try to understand its meaning using root word ego. Built a story based on it and you will never forget

Find out meaning of words

egocentric
egomaniac

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