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 |
|---|---|
| rider | one that rides |
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
| canard | a false or unfounded report or story |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| indignity | an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult |
| arcade | a long arched building or gallery |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |