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 |
|---|---|
| voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
| jocose | given to joking : merry |
| lackluster | lacking in sheen, brilliance, or vitality : dull |
| giddy | dizzy |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| acquittal | a setting free from the charge of an offense by verdict, sentence, or other legal process |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| marginal | written or printed in the margin of a page or sheet |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |