GRE Word List
MALFEASANCE
wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official
The meaning of the word malfeasance is wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obnoxious | odiously or disgustingly objectionable : highly offensive |
| reverend | worthy of reverence : revered |
| uniformity | the quality or state of being uniform |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| brand | a charred piece of wood |
| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| concordat | compact |