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 |
|---|---|
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| nurture | training |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| tutelage | instruction especially of an individual |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| redolent | exuding fragrance : aromatic |