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 |
|---|---|
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| debut | a first appearance |
| nonplus | a state of bafflement or perplexity : quandary |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| transcendental | transcendent |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| monotony | tedious sameness |
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |