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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
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| aberrant | deviating from the usual or natural type : atypical |
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| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| lumen | the cavity of a tubular organ or part |