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 |
|---|---|
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| suppress | to put down by authority or force : subdue |
| forfeit | something forfeited or subject to being forfeited (as for a crime, offense, or neglect of duty) : penalty |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |