GRE Word List
COROLLARY
a proposition (see proposition
The meaning of the word corollary is a proposition (see proposition.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| opprobrium | something that brings disgrace |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |
| amplify | to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| whinny | to neigh especially in a low or gentle way |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| deputize | to appoint as deputy |
| carat | a unit of fineness for gold equal to ¹/₂₄ part of pure gold in an alloy |