GRE Word List
PRECINCT
a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district
The meaning of the word precinct is a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district.
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| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| porous | possessing or full of pores |
| categorical | absolute |
| antipathy | a strong feeling of dislike |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| munificent | very liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |