GRE Word List
STATUTORY
of or relating to statutes
The meaning of the word statutory is of or relating to statutes.
Random words
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| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| skiff | any of various small boats |
| lap | a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |