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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| enterprising | marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| apiarist | beekeeper |
| nomenclature | name |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| enormity | an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act |