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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |
| brawl | to quarrel or fight noisily : wrangle |
| retribution | recompense |
| limber | having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body) : agile |