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 |
|---|---|
| coincidence | the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence |
| wane | to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| gusto | an individual or special taste |
| seethe | to suffer violent internal excitement |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |