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 |
|---|---|
| provision | the act or process of providing |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| expatriate | banish |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| timidity | lacking in courage or self-confidence |
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |