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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| choice | the act of choosing : selection |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| aberrant | deviating from the usual or natural type : atypical |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |