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 |
|---|---|
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| imminent | ready to take place : happening soon |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| prurient | marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| consign | to give over to another's care |
| susceptible | capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |