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 |
|---|---|
| hegemony | preponderant influence or authority over others : domination |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| opportunist | one that is opportunistic or that practices opportunism |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| demise | death |
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |
| bauble | trinket |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |