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 |
|---|---|
| boor | peasant |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| guileless | innocent |
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |