GRE Word List

SUPPOSITION

something that is supposed : hypothesis

The meaning of the word supposition is something that is supposed : hypothesis.

Random words

WordMeaning
implacablenot placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated
unaccountablenot to be accounted for : inexplicable
entrancepower or permission to enter : admission
castigationto subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism
refectorya dining hall (as in a monastery or college)
bequeathto give or leave by will (see will
atavismrecurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination
mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
maniacalaffected with or suggestive of madness
compulsionan act of compelling