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 |
|---|---|
| sustain | to give support or relief to |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| suppliant | supplicant |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |