GRE Word List

PREMISE

a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference

The meaning of the word premise is a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference.

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retributionrecompense
carafea bottle with a flaring lip used to hold beverages and especially wine
dispassionatenot influenced by strong feeling
ellipticalof, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse
extraneousexisting on or coming from the outside
nebulousof, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular
inerrancyexemption from error : infallibility
gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
ironicrelating to, containing, or constituting irony
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