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 |
|---|---|
| nutrient | furnishing nourishment |
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |