GRE Word List
APHORISM
a concise statement of a principle
The meaning of the word aphorism is a concise statement of a principle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |
| evenhanded | fair |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| aseptic | preventing infection |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |