truckle

verbCommon GRE wordMore T words

to submit or yield meekly and obsequiously to another's will

In a sentence

Truckle in a sentence

Here is an example sentence showing truckle in a sentence.

He refused to truckle to his employer's unreasonable demands, even at the risk of his job.

Synonyms

Antonyms

resistdefydominate

Keep going

understood or implied without being openly stated

habitually reserved and uncommunicative in speech

only loosely relevant; diverging from the main point

perceptible by touch or concrete enough to be grasped

to twist together into a confused or knotted mass

equivalent in effect or value to something else

to dull or damage the luster, reputation, or purity of something

needlessly repeating an idea using different words

Common questions

Truckle (verb) means to submit or yield meekly and obsequiously to another's will

Here is truckle used in an example sentence: "He refused to truckle to his employer's unreasonable demands, even at the risk of his job."

Common synonyms for truckle include grovel, kowtow, capitulate, cringe.

Antonyms of truckle include resist, defy, dominate.

Truckle is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

Vocabulary sticks when you meet it in real sentences. Practise these words inside text completion and sentence equivalence questions.