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 |
|---|---|
| indignation | anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |
| epic | a long narrative poem in elevated style recounting the deeds of a legendary or historical hero |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| comeback | a sharp or witty reply : retort |
| stump | the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |