vocab post

This post is about the challenging vocab words I found in my book. The first challenging word I found was egomania. When I first saw this word and was trying to decipher it I tried breaking it down a bit. The first part was ego and I know that having a big ego means you're kind of full of your self, or something like that. The second part was mania, which I was pretty sure meant something along the lines of crazy or intense. the word egomania came from this sentence in my book, "This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens, but you can do it" (Fey, 154). Using my context clues I decided that it had to be somewhat close to delusion which means a firm belief, since it was describing posing for a photo shoot as delusional/egomania. I then concluded that it must mean to have a crazy big ego. When I looked up egomania I discovered that the literal definition was "Obsessive egotism or self-centeredness," so I was pretty close.