GRE Word List
PRECIPITOUS
precipitate
The meaning of the word precipitous is precipitate.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| volatile | characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| interim | an intervening time : interval |
| metrical | of, relating to, or composed in meter |
| periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |