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 |
|---|---|
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| scotch | scottish |
| adjuration | a solemn oath |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| appease | pacify |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |