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 |
|---|---|
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| persevere | to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement |
| carefree | free from care: such as |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |
| amity | friendship |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |