GRE Word List
JUDICIARY
a system of courts of law
The meaning of the word judiciary is a system of courts of law.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| litigation | the act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the act or process of litigating |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| chancellor | the secretary of a nobleman, prince, or king |
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |