GRE Word List
STATUTE
a law enacted by the legislative branch of a government
The meaning of the word statute is a law enacted by the legislative branch of a government.
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|---|---|
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| credo | a guiding belief or principle : creed |
| cohabit | to live together as or as if a married couple |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |