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 |
|---|---|
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| abnegation | denial |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| rusticate | to go into or reside in the country : follow a rustic life |
| knave | a tricky deceitful fellow |
| substantial | consisting of or relating to substance |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| psychosomatic | of, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| lustrous | reflecting light evenly and efficiently without glitter or sparkle |