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 |
|---|---|
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| dolt | a stupid person |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| farce | stuff |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| oblivion | the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness |
| arroyo | a watercourse (such as a creek) in an arid region |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| expedient | suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance |