GRE Word List
PRECIPITOUS
precipitate
The meaning of the word precipitous is precipitate.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| capacious | containing or capable of containing a great deal |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| compatible | capable of existing together in harmony |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| pinion | the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| discriminate | to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |