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 |
|---|---|
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| procrastinate | to put off intentionally and habitually |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| unrequited | not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |