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 |
|---|---|
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| nutritious | nourishing |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| animosity | a strong feeling of dislike or hatred : ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| noncommittal | giving no clear indication of attitude or feeling |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |