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 |
|---|---|
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| lax | loose |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| incendiary | igniting combustible materials spontaneously |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| magisterial | of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a master or teacher : authoritative |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |