GRE Word List
MAXIM
a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct
The meaning of the word maxim is a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| slipshod | wearing loose shoes or slippers |
| menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| antiseptic | opposing microbial infection |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |