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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| solicit | to make petition to : entreat |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| variegated | having discrete markings of different colors |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |