GRE Word List
FATALISM
a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them
The meaning of the word fatalism is a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |
| appease | pacify |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| scavenge | to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area |
| tepid | moderately warm : lukewarm |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| disperse | to cause to break up (see break up |
| pantomime | pantomimist |
| circuit | a usually circular line encompassing an area |