GRE Word List
PRECIPITOUS
precipitate
The meaning of the word precipitous is precipitate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| wrinkle | a small ridge or furrow especially when formed on a surface by the shrinking or contraction of a smooth substance : crease |
| behoove | to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for |
| jibe | to be in accord : agree |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |