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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legacy | a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : bequest |
martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
shear | to cut off the hair from |
empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |
fervent | very hot : glowing |
defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
pry | to look closely or inquisitively |
wade | to step in or through a medium (such as water) offering more resistance than air |