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 |
|---|---|
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| waffle | a crisp cake of batter baked in a waffle iron |
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| vixen | a female fox |
| affidavit | a sworn statement in writing made especially under oath or on affirmation (see affirmation |
| diurnal | active chiefly in the daytime |
| dossier | a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |