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 |
|---|---|
| chase | the hunting of wild animals |
| dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| functional | of, connected with, or being a function |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| gawk | a clumsy stupid person : lout |
| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| tenure | the act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office) |