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 |
|---|---|
| predispose | to dispose in advance |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| predilection | an established preference for something |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |