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 |
|---|---|
| tender | marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions : fond |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| acquittal | a setting free from the charge of an offense by verdict, sentence, or other legal process |
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| arboreal | of, relating to, or resembling a tree |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |