GRE Word List
DEFEATIST
an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat
The meaning of the word defeatist is an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| fathom | a unit of length equal to six feet (1.83 meters) used especially for measuring the depth of water |
| impregnable | incapable of being taken by assault : unconquerable |
| quench | put out |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| swerve | to turn aside abruptly from a straight line or course : deviate |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is but one God |