GRE Word List
TACIT
expressed or carried on without words or speech
The meaning of the word tacit is expressed or carried on without words or speech.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cataclysm | flood |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| obligatory | binding in law or conscience |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| filch | to steal secretly or casually |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |