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 |
|---|---|
| vulgar | lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste : coarse |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
| pluck | to pull or pick off or out |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| hive | a container for housing honeybees |
| unsavory | insipid |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |