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 |
|---|---|
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| drab | slattern |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke : unalterable |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| gerrymander | the act or method of gerrymandering |
| philatelist | a specialist in philately : one who collects or studies stamps |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| appraise | to set a value on : to estimate the amount of |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |