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- Precedent
- Act of instance that may serve as a justification or example for subsequent situations.
- Exceed
- To go beyond in quantity, degree, rate, etc.; to surpass, be superior to; excel.
- Antecedent
- A preceding circumstance, event, occurrence or phenomenon.
- Succeed
- To happen or terminate according to desire; to accomplish what is attempted or intended.
- Ancestor
- A person from whom one is decended esp. if more remote than a grandparent.
- Captive
- A prisoner; a person who is enslaved or dominated.
- Succession
- A number of persons or things arranged or following one another in order or sequence.
- Emancipate
- To free from constraint (of custon or tradition);to free (slaves) from bondage.
- Reciprocate
- To give, feel etc. in return: to give and receive mutually; enterchange.
- Secede
- To withdraw formally from an assocation.
- Anticipate
- To feel or realize beforehand; to look forward to, esp. with pleasure or confidence.
- Unprecedented
- Never before known or experienced; unparalleled.
- Process
- A systematic series of actions directed to some end; a continuous action, operation or array of changes taking place.
- Concede
- To acknowledge as true, real, just or proper, often unwillingly.
- Perceptive
- Having the ability to take in something throughly or see clearly; discerning.
- Receptive
- Having the quality of taking in or admitting; able of quick to accept knowledge, ideas ect.
- Acceptance
- The act, processing or receiving of something offered; being taken or admitted to a group.
- Intercept
- To take, seize, or halt; to stop or interrupt the course or progress of.
- Recede
- To slope backwards; to go back to a more distant point; retreat; withdraw.