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 |
|---|---|
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| ostensible | intended for display : open to view |
| smear | a viscous or sticky substance |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| oblivion | the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |