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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| allegiance | the obligation of a feudal vassal to his liege lord |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| reckon | count |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |