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 |
|---|---|
| harass | exhaust |
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| impediment | something that impedes |
| motley | variegated in color |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |