GRE Word List

MISCELLANY

separate writings collected in one volume

The meaning of the word miscellany is separate writings collected in one volume.

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theoreticalexisting only in theory : hypothetical
adventthe period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting
inadvertentlyunintentional
coronera usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
manifestationthe act, process, or an instance of manifesting
diminutionthe act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease
manifestreadily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight
tyroa beginner in learning : novice
mulctfine