GRE Word List
LEGISLATURE
a body of persons having the power to legislate
The meaning of the word legislature is a body of persons having the power to legislate.
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| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| agitate | to excite and often trouble the mind or feelings of : disturb |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| ingrained | forming a part of the essence or inmost being : deep-seated |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| coax | to influence or gently urge by caressing or flattering : wheedle |
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |