GRE Word List
TRUISM
an undoubted or self-evident truth
The meaning of the word truism is an undoubted or self-evident truth.
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| trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
| gullible | easily duped or cheated |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
| bearing | the manner in which one behaves or comports oneself : the manner in which one bears (see bear |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |