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 |
|---|---|
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| engaged | involved in activity : occupied |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| throes | pang |
| ravine | a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| apiarist | beekeeper |