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 |
|---|---|
| belittle | to speak slightingly of : disparage |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| nebulous | of, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular |
| hothead | a hotheaded person |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |