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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| premonitory | giving warning |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| nomenclature | name |