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 |
|---|---|
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| draft | the act of drawing or pulling in a net |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| proponent | one who argues in favor of something : advocate |
| immobility | not moving : motionless |
| pigment | a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |