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 |
|---|---|
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| amalgamate | to unite in or as if in an amalgam |
| gamut | the whole series of recognized musical notes |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |