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 |
|---|---|
| submissive | submitting to others |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| sidetrack | siding |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| juncture | a point of time |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| endear | to cause to become beloved or admired |
| threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |