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 |
|---|---|
| indenture | a document or a section of a document that is indented |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| bestial | of or relating to beasts |
| incarnation | the act of incarnating : the state of being incarnate |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |