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 |
|---|---|
| irremediable | not remediable |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| recumbent | suggestive of repose : leaning |
| blowhard | an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| retrench | cut down |
| trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
| nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |