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 |
|---|---|
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| ventral | of or relating to the belly : abdominal |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| consensus | general agreement : unanimity |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |
| voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| cross | a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |