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 |
|---|---|
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| addle | rotten |
| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| kaleidoscope | an instrument containing loose bits of colored material (such as glass or plastic) between two flat plates and two plane mirrors so placed that changes of position of the bits of material are reflected in an endless variety of patterns |
| volition | the power of choosing or determining : will |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |