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 |
|---|---|
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| bank | a mound, pile, or ridge raised above the surrounding level: such as |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
| sear | being dried and withered |
| gestate | to carry in the uterus during pregnancy |
| choir | an organized company of singers (as in a church service) |
| inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |