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 |
|---|---|
| modicum | a small portion : a limited quantity |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| leery | suspicious |
| ethos | the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution |
| exploit | deed |
| 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 |