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 |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| precinct | a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| rigid | deficient in or devoid of flexibility |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| charlatan | quack |