GRE Word List
COROLLARY
a proposition (see proposition
The meaning of the word corollary is a proposition (see proposition.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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franchise | the right or license granted to an individual or group to market a company's goods or services in a particular territory |
mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
flicker | to move irregularly or unsteadily : flutter |
xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
pedant | one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge |
dainty | something delicious to the taste |
gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
lithe | easily bent or flexed |
profound | having intellectual depth and insight |