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
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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 |