GRE Word List
PRECIPICE
a very steep or overhanging place
The meaning of the word precipice is a very steep or overhanging place.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
| plumb | a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction |
| demure | reserved |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| thespian | actor |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |