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 |
|---|---|
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| lax | loose |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| dys- | abnormal |
| dabble | to work or involve oneself superficially or intermittently especially in a secondary activity or interest |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| gloat | to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight |