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 |
|---|---|
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| obituary | a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account |
| bauble | trinket |
| antecede | precede |
| sever | to put or keep apart : divide |
| rousing | giving rise to excitement : stirring |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| resilient | characterized or marked by resilience: such as |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |