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 |
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| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| sustain | to give support or relief to |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| patent | open to public inspection |
| hamper | to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede |
| quip | a clever usually taunting remark : gibe |