GRE Word List
PRECOCIOUS
exceptionally early in development or occurrence
The meaning of the word precocious is exceptionally early in development or occurrence.
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| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| pummel | pound |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| mendicant | beggar |
| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |