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 |
|---|---|
| exhort | to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly |
| acme | the highest point or stage |
| fructify | to bear fruit |
| comprise | to be made up of |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| confidant | one to whom secrets are entrusted |
| sanguine | marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |