GRE Word List
MISNOMER
the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument
The meaning of the word misnomer is the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| willowy | abounding with willows |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| slake | subside |
| compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| vision | the act or power of seeing : sight |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| recapitulate | to retell or restate briefly : summarize |