GRE Vocab Word of the Day: Precocious | GRE Vocabulary

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Today’s GRE vocab word of the day is precocious. GRE instructor Grace Trewartha will teach you what it means and how to use it!

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[jiaoziZ]

At only five years of age, the precocious pianist brought the entire audience to its feet.

[johncyril]

A precocious child would never ask such easy questions unless they meant something deep.

[johncyril]

Taking financial advise from his daughter made me think that the kid might be precocious.

[arifistiaque]

I consider myself precocious and thus always advise my parents

[mahmudhasan]

I saw a precocious kid trying to console his grieving mother.

[sarkkoa]

School yard bullies exude hostile anxieties towards precocious students making the grade... Facts...

[iordanneDiogeneslucas]

And she knows just what it takes to make a pro blush

[johncyril]

The documentary of this serial killer shows a 12 year kid as a protagonist. The movie tries to show the kid precocious, however I think he needs mental care.

[SuccessforLifester]

One of the pedagogies of education to develop a child precociously was to give him easy access to books.

[johncyril]

These designs by a 10 year old show signs of precociousness.

[ariaz]

Before total °conscious° we should pass the precocious stage.
My nephew is able to complete a sudoku. It's a sign of his precocious development.

To paraphrase this word:
Early stage of mental development

[SuccessforLifester]

The boy was precocious and preferred the company of advanced books rather than his peers.

[johncyril]

The precocious kid from television made odious comments on the women feeding ducks at the park. Though the kid made some correct points, the society's leader sanctioned him a warrant with some basic restrictions between 9 to 10 am.

[SuccessforLifester]

The boy was so precocious that he ended up disrupting the class as the lessons were too easy for him.

[jojoquigley]

Einstein was not thought to be precocious by his teachers. In fact they thought he was a slow learner. They were wrong, he was just bored in school. It turns out that he was quite precocious.