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 |
|---|---|
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| creed | a brief authoritative formula of religious belief |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| apparent | open to view : visible |
| calculated | apt |
| satellite | a celestial body orbiting another of larger size |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |