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 |
|---|---|
| repellent | serving or tending to drive away or ward off |
| annotate | to make or furnish critical or explanatory notes or comment |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| shack | hut |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |
| ram | a male sheep |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |