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 |
|---|---|
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |
| parched | deprived of natural moisture |
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| latitude | angular distance from some specified circle or plane of reference: such as |
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
| indolent | averse to activity, effort, or movement : habitually lazy |