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 |
|---|---|
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |
| chivalrous | valiant |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| antique | existing since or belonging to earlier times : ancient |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| fabricate | invent |