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 |
|---|---|
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| mystic | mystical |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| partiality | the quality or state of being partial : bias |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| guffaw | a loud or boisterous burst of laughter |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |