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 |
|---|---|
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| percussion | the act of percussing: such as |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| glean | to gather grain or other produce left by reapers |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| tempestuous | of, relating to, or resembling a tempest : turbulent |