GRE Word List
JURISDICTION
the power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law
The meaning of the word jurisdiction is the power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| steep | lofty |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| consonance | harmony or agreement among components |
| natty | trimly neat and tidy : smart |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |