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 |
|---|---|
| oversee | survey |
| hilarity | boisterous merriment or laughter |
| distinctive | marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| revert | to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject) |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| imbecility | the quality or state of being very stupid or foolish : utter foolishness |
| blanch | to take the color out of |