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 |
|---|---|
| avocation | a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's vocation especially for enjoyment : hobby |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| 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 |
| reckon | count |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |