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 |
|---|---|
| conjure | to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| rare | seldom occurring or found : uncommon |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |