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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| gambit | a chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| shambles | a meat market |
| venial | of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| institute | something that is instituted: such as |
| amazon | a member of a race of female warriors of Greek mythology |