GRE Word List
PRECEDENT
prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance
The meaning of the word precedent is prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| garnish | decorate |
| conjure | to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| satirical | of, relating to, or constituting satire |
| coalition | the act of coalescing : union |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| coda | a concluding musical section that is formally distinct from the main structure |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |