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 |
|---|---|
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| quorum | a select group |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| seclusion | the act of secluding : the condition of being secluded |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| gamely | a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other |