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.

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WordMeaning
disengageto release from something that engages or involves
premonitorygiving warning
intimatemarked by a warm friendship developing through long association
monotonytedious sameness
limpidmarked by transparency (see transparent
figmentsomething made up or contrived
dauntto lessen the courage of : cow
dallyto act playfully
coniferany of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit
morbidof, relating to, or characteristic of disease