GRE Word List
MISCELLANEOUS
consisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous
The meaning of the word miscellaneous is consisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| denizen | inhabitant |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| extrude | to force, press, or push out |
| laceration | the act of lacerating |
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| stilted | pompous |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |
| intangible | not tangible : impalpable |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |