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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| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| filth | foul or putrid matter |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| menagerie | a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |
| outlandish | of or relating to another country : foreign |
| eccentricity | the quality or state of being eccentric |