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 |
|---|---|
| advocacy | the act or process of supporting a cause or proposal : the act or process of advocating (see advocate |
| confidential | marked by intimacy or willingness to confide |
| spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
| advocate | one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| opulence | wealth |
| unfrock | defrock |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| exhort | to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly |