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.

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earthlycharacteristic of or belonging to this earth
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touchymarked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation
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repressto check by or as if by pressure : curb
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