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 |
|---|---|
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |
| disaffected | discontented and resentful especially against authority : rebellious |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| prolific | producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| machiavellian | of or relating to Machiavelli or Machiavellianism |
| prowess | distinguished bravery |
| incorporate | to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole |
| benison | blessing |