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 |
|---|---|
| leniency | the quality or state of being lenient |
| longevity | a long duration of individual life |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| clamber | to climb awkwardly or with effort especially by using both the hands and the feet |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| flaunt | to display or obtrude oneself to public notice |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |