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 |
|---|---|
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
| ram | a male sheep |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| multilingual | of, having, or expressed in several languages |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| concatenate | linked together |
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |