GRE Word List
PRECIPITOUS
precipitate
The meaning of the word precipitous is precipitate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |
| gnome | maxim |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| dour | stern |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |
| frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |
| usage | firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure |
| 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 |