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 |
|---|---|
| postulate | demand |
| abnegation | denial |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| tremor | a trembling or shaking usually from physical weakness, emotional stress, or disease |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |