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 |
|---|---|
| whinny | to neigh especially in a low or gentle way |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| discordant | being at variance : disagreeing |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| slight | having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body |
| canter | one who uses cant: such as |
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |