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 |
|---|---|
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| soar | to fly aloft or about |
| reconnaissance | a preliminary survey to gain information |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| cerebral | of or relating to the brain or the intellect |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |