GRE Word List
MALAPROPISM
the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase
The meaning of the word malapropism is the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| inanimate | not animate: |
| vise | any of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| luxuriate | to grow profusely : thrive |