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 |
|---|---|
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
| eccentricity | the quality or state of being eccentric |
| metaphysical | of or relating to metaphysics |
| balm | a balsamic (see balsamic |
| vigil | the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary |
| untenable | not able to be defended |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| aberrant | deviating from the usual or natural type : atypical |