GRE Word List
AXIOM
a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate
The meaning of the word axiom is a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| trinket | a small ornament (such as a jewel or ring) |
| arid | excessively dry |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| uncouth | awkward and uncultivated in appearance, manner, or behavior : rude |
| headfirst | with the head foremost |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |