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 |
|---|---|
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
| weary | exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| treatise | a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| gratify | to be a source of or give pleasure or satisfaction to |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |
| bookish | of or relating to books |