GRE Word List
JURISPRUDENCE
the science or philosophy of law
The meaning of the word jurisprudence is the science or philosophy of law.
Random words
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pallet | a straw-filled tick or mattress |
provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |
lugubrious | mournful |
babble | to talk enthusiastically or excessively |
suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |