GRE Word List
TRUISM
an undoubted or self-evident truth
The meaning of the word truism is an undoubted or self-evident truth.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| annotate | to make or furnish critical or explanatory notes or comment |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity |
| helm | a lever or wheel controlling the rudder of a ship for steering |
| defalcate | deduct |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| brink | edge |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |