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 |
|---|---|
| definitive | serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| belittle | to speak slightingly of : disparage |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| ramification | branch |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| lackluster | lacking in sheen, brilliance, or vitality : dull |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |