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 |
|---|---|
| subsidy | a grant or gift of money: such as |
| peremptory | putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| brawny | muscular |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |