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 |
|---|---|
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| skeptic | an adherent or advocate of skepticism |
| doddering | feeble |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| expedient | suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance |
| plenary | complete in every respect : absolute |