GRE Word List
PRECIPITOUS
precipitate
The meaning of the word precipitous is precipitate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| prosperous | auspicious |
| recourse | a turning to someone or something for help or protection |
| qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |
| voracious | having a huge appetite : ravenous |
| slap | to strike sharply with or as if with the open hand |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |