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 |
|---|---|
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| disparage | to depreciate (see depreciate |
| cognizance | a distinguishing mark or emblem (such as a heraldic bearing) |
| jocose | given to joking : merry |