GRE Word List
APHORISM
a concise statement of a principle
The meaning of the word aphorism is a concise statement of a principle.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| acknowledge | to recognize the rights, authority, or status of |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| adorn | to enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects |
| mirage | an optical (see optical |