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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ambidextrous | using both hands with equal ease or dexterity |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| infantile | of or relating to infants or infancy |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| 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 |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| forlorn | bereft |