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 |
|---|---|
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| cerebration | to use the mind : think |
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| mason | a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick) |
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |