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 |
|---|---|
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| wan | suggestive of poor health : sickly |
| shambles | a meat market |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| indecisive | marked by or prone to indecision : irresolute |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| apothegm | a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |