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 |
|---|---|
| gracious | marked by kindness and courtesy |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| agape | wide open : gaping |
| figure | a number symbol : numeral |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| bulge | to jut out : swell |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |