Fce Test Set 1

Front 1

precept

Back 1

n.
1. A rule or principle prescribing a particular course of action or conduct.
2. Law An authorized direction or order; a writ.

Front 2

smut

Back 2

smut
n.
1.
a. A particle of dirt.
b. A smudge made by soot, smoke, or dirt.
2.
a. Obscenity in speech or writing.
b. Pornography.
3.
a. Any of various plant diseases, especially of cereal grasses, caused by parasitic fungi of the order Ustilaginales that form black powdery masses of spores on the affected parts.
b. A fungus causing such a disease.
v. smut·ted, smut·ting, smuts
v.tr.
1. To blacken or smudge, as with smoke or grime.
2. To affect (a plant) with smut.
3. To free (grain, for example) from smut.
4. To make obscene.
v.intr.
1. To emit smut.
2. To be or become blackened or smudged.
3. To become affected with smut, as a plant.

Front 3

soot

Back 3

soot
n.
The fine black particles, chiefly composed of carbon, produced by incomplete combustion of coal, oil, wood, or other fuels.