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 |
|---|---|
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| droop | to hang or incline downward |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |