GRE Word List
JUDICIARY
a system of courts of law
The meaning of the word judiciary is a system of courts of law.
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prowess | distinguished bravery |
qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
escapade | a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct |
couple | two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired |
lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |