English Note9

-cede, ceed, cess

1. precedent: prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance

Ex:Voters demanded that the candidates keep the pledges made as acondition precedent to election.

2. recede: to slant backward

Ex: His hair is beginning to recede from his forehead.

3. secession: withdrawal into privacy or solitude

Ex: The secession of some southern states from the U.S.A. in the 1860sled to a civil war.

4. accession: the act of coming to high office or a position of honor or power

Ex: On his accession to the throne, he inherited vast estates.

5. antecedent: a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun

Ex: The word "man" is the antecedent of "who" in "the man whospoke".