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 |
|---|---|
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| chorus | a company of singers and dancers in Athenian drama participating in or commenting on the action |
| enfranchise | to set free (as from slavery) |
| forswear | to make a liar of (oneself) under or as if under oath |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| humanitarian | a person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist |