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 |
|---|---|
| uncouth | awkward and uncultivated in appearance, manner, or behavior : rude |
| bank | a mound, pile, or ridge raised above the surrounding level: such as |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| cohesion | the act or state of sticking together tightly |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| congenital | existing at or dating from birth |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |