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
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| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| maculated | marked with spots : blotched |
| conspiracy | the act of conspiring together |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| torrent | a violent or forceful flow of fluid |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| entreat | to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently |
| monolithic | of, relating to, or resembling a monolith : huge |