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 |
|---|---|
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| acme | the highest point or stage |
| pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| linguistic | of or relating to language or linguistics |
| stigma | a mark of shame or discredit : stain |
| drip | to let fall in drops |
| physiological | of or relating to physiology |