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 |
|---|---|
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| imminent | ready to take place : happening soon |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| edifice | building |