GRE Word List
SYLLOGISM
a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable")
The meaning of the word syllogism is a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable").
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| swear | to utter or take solemnly (an oath) |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| season | a time characterized by a particular circumstance or feature |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| omnipotent | almighty |
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |
