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 |
|---|---|
| doldrums | a spell of listlessness or despondency |
| aspirant | one who aspires |
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| allegiance | the obligation of a feudal vassal to his liege lord |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| fit | acceptable from a particular viewpoint (as of competence or morality) : proper |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |