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 |
|---|---|
| puissant | having puissance : powerful |
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| overweening | arrogant |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| dour | stern |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |