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 |
|---|---|
| apiculture | the keeping of bees especially on a large scale |
| scad | any of several carangid fishes (especially of the genus Decapterus) |
| suppress | to put down by authority or force : subdue |
| uninhibited | free from inhibition |
| reckon | count |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |