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 |
|---|---|
| personable | pleasant or amiable in person : attractive |
| aggregate | formed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective |
| reimburse | to pay back to someone : repay |
| fuddle | booze |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| composure | a calmness or repose especially of mind, bearing, or appearance : self-possession |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| replete | fully or abundantly provided or filled |