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 |
|---|---|
| amphitheater | an oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open space and used in ancient Rome especially for contests and spectacles |
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| crotchety | given to crotchets (see crotchet |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| musty | impaired by damp or mildew : moldy |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |