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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| whittle | a large knife |
| actuarial | of or relating to actuaries |
| stringent | tight |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| biting | having the power to bite |
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |
| disperse | to cause to break up (see break up |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |