GRE Word List
PRECIPICE
a very steep or overhanging place
The meaning of the word precipice is a very steep or overhanging place.
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| putrid | being in a state of putrefaction : rotten |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| muster | a representative specimen (see specimen |
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| precipitous | precipitate |
| precise | exactly or sharply defined or stated |
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