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 |
|---|---|
| orator | one who delivers an oration |
| catapult | an ancient military device for hurling missiles |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| bask | to lie or relax in a pleasant warmth or atmosphere |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |