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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dysenterya disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection
herbivorousfeeding on plants
preternaturalexisting outside of nature
potentialexisting in possibility : capable of development into actuality
conjureto charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly
precludeto make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance
dwindleto become steadily less : shrink
gradationa series forming successive stages
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abstinencethe practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable