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 |
|---|---|
| painstaking | taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| fuss: | trouble or worry over trifles; make nervous; pay too much attention to; N: needless concern or worry (about a trivial thing); anxious nervous condition; display of attention; Ex. make a fuss over the baby |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| glib | showing little forethought or preparation : offhand |
| subsidiary | furnishing aid or support : auxiliary |
| skim | to clear (a liquid) of scum or floating substance |
| gawk | a clumsy stupid person : lout |
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |