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 |
|---|---|
| factotum | a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |
| introspective | characterized by examination of one's own thoughts and feelings : thoughtfully reflective : employing, marked by, or tending to introspection |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| dilute | attenuate |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |