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 |
|---|---|
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| representational | one that represents: such as |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| manipulate | to treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| palette | a thin oval or rectangular board or tablet that a painter holds and mixes pigments on |
| forward | near, being at, or belonging to the forepart |