GRE Word List
PRECIPITOUS
precipitate
The meaning of the word precipitous is precipitate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| amicable | characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| bacchanalian | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| fallow | of a light yellowish-brown color |