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 |
|---|---|
| malodorous | having a bad odor |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| adamant | unshakable or insistent especially in maintaining a position or opinion : unyielding |
| unilateral | done or undertaken by one person or party |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| shambles | a meat market |