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 |
|---|---|
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| cursive | running |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| killjoy | one who spoils the pleasure of others |