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 |
|---|---|
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| implement | a device used in the performance of a task : tool |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| ramp | a sloping way or plane: such as |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| diorama | a scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |