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 |
|---|---|
| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| revoke | to annul by recalling or taking back : rescind |
| memoir | an official note or report : memorandum |
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| dislodge | to drive from a position of hiding, defense, or advantage |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |