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.

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exactingtryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands
jurisprudencethe science or philosophy of law
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balma balsamic (see balsamic
defaceto mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details
burlesquea literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation
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bumpa relatively abrupt convexity or protuberance on a surface: such as
astronomicalof or relating to astronomy
granarya storehouse for threshed grain