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 |
|---|---|
| bluff | having a broad flattened front |
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| raiment | clothing |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| prerogative | an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| culmination | the action of culminating |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |