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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spare | not being used |
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| list | a simple series of words or numerals (such as the names of persons or objects) |
| metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| diverse | differing from one another : unlike |
| ineffectual | not producing the proper or intended effect : futile |
| 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 |
| microcosm | a little world |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |