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 |
|---|---|
| conclave | a private meeting or secret assembly |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, and congenial |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| representational | one that represents: such as |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |