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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| cardinal | a high ecclesiastical official of the Roman Catholic Church who ranks next below the pope and is appointed by him to assist him as a member of the college of cardinals (see college |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| evocative | evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response |
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| listless | characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit |
| crave | to ask for earnestly : beg |