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 |
|---|---|
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| addendum | a thing added : addition |
| crest | a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration |
| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| peerless | matchless |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| confide | to have confidence : trust |
| concurrent | operating or occurring at the same time |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |