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 |
|---|---|
| militant | engaged in warfare or combat : fighting |
| fussy | easily upset : irritable |
| infidel | one who is not a Christian or who opposes Christianity |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| underscore | to draw a line under : underline |
| horde | a political subdivision of central Asian nomads |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| grate | grating |