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 |
|---|---|
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| suppress | to put down by authority or force : subdue |
| writ | something written : writing |
| concurrent | operating or occurring at the same time |