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 |
|---|---|
| disingenuous | lacking in candor |
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| lout | to bow in respect |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| subliminal | inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |