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 |
|---|---|
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |
| rustic | of, relating to, or suitable for the country : rural |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| approbation | commendation |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |