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 |
|---|---|
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| ramification | branch |
| shuffle | to mix in a mass confusedly : jumble |
| hubbub | noise |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |