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 |
|---|---|
| countenance | look |
| convert | to bring over from one belief, view, or party to another |
| entity | being |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |
| dispirited | to deprive of morale or enthusiasm |
| refrain | curb |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| canker | an erosive or spreading sore |
| commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |