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 |
|---|---|
| inane | lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly |
| mannered | having manners of a specified kind |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |
| deposition | a testifying especially before a court |
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |