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 |
|---|---|
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| determinate | having defined limits |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| stentorian | extremely loud |