GRE Word List
TENET
a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true
The meaning of the word tenet is a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| fit | acceptable from a particular viewpoint (as of competence or morality) : proper |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas |
| purse | a small bag for money |
| giddy | dizzy |