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 |
|---|---|
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| headfirst | with the head foremost |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| disclose | to make known or public |
| incompatible | not compatible: such as |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
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| gobble | to swallow or eat greedily |
| quicksilver | mercury |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |