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 |
|---|---|
| demolition | the act of demolishing |
| vigor | active bodily or mental strength or force |
| gazette | newspaper |
| mystic | mystical |
| momentum | a property (see property |
| motley | variegated in color |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| 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 |