GRE Word List
PRECEPT
a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action
The meaning of the word precept is a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| inquisitor | one who inquires or makes inquisition |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| sleek | slick |
| undermine | to subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |