GRE Word List
PRECIPITOUS
precipitate
The meaning of the word precipitous is precipitate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| ichthyology | a branch of zoology that deals with fishes |
| viper | a common Eurasian venomous snake (Vipera berus) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and is usually not fatal to humans |
| mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| scurvy | a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes |
| chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |
| mendicant | beggar |