GRE Word List
TRUISM
an undoubted or self-evident truth
The meaning of the word truism is an undoubted or self-evident truth.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| abyss | an immeasurably deep gulf or great space |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| sectarian | of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| congeal | to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |