GRE Word List
PRECOCIOUS
exceptionally early in development or occurrence
The meaning of the word precocious is exceptionally early in development or occurrence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| interim | an intervening time : interval |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| remit | to lay aside (a mood or disposition) partly or wholly |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |