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 |
|---|---|
| grisly | inspiring horror or intense fear |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| geniality | marked by or freely expressing sympathy or friendliness |
| refrain | curb |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| recital | a detailed account : enumeration |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |