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 |
|---|---|
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| determinate | having defined limits |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| lateral | of or relating to the side |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |
| viscous | having a thick or sticky consistency : viscid |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| bland | smooth and soothing in manner or quality |