GRE Word List
MISCELLANY
separate writings collected in one volume
The meaning of the word miscellany is separate writings collected in one volume.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| evoke | to call forth or up: such as |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| primary | first in order of time or development : primitive |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |