GRE Word List
UNPRECEDENTED
having no precedent : novel
The meaning of the word unprecedented is having no precedent : novel.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rant | to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| culmination | the action of culminating |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| sleek | slick |
| viper | a common Eurasian venomous snake (Vipera berus) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and is usually not fatal to humans |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| championship | designation as champion |