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 |
|---|---|
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| munificent | very liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| fussy | easily upset : irritable |
| rhapsody | a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| distort | to twist (see twist |
| volley | the flight of the ball (as in volleyball or tennis) or its course before striking the ground |