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 |
|---|---|
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| preposterous | contrary to nature, reason, or common sense : absurd |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| manumit | to release from slavery |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| recital | a detailed account : enumeration |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |