GRE Word List
PRECIPITOUS
precipitate
The meaning of the word precipitous is precipitate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| 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 |
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| noncommittal | giving no clear indication of attitude or feeling |
| idiosyncrasy | a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality |
| asunder | into parts |
| aromatic | of, relating to, or having aroma: |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |