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 |
|---|---|
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| coroner | a 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 |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| manifestation | the act, process, or an instance of manifesting |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| tyro | a beginner in learning : novice |
| mulct | fine |