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 |
|---|---|
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| torrent | a violent or forceful flow of fluid |
| vigilant | alertly watchful especially to avoid danger |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| gorge | a narrow passage through land |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |