GRE Word List
MISCONDUCT
mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities
The meaning of the word misconduct is mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| aesthetic | of, relating to, or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful |
| disgorge | to discharge by the throat and mouth : vomit |