farrago
Other forms: farragos; farragoes
A farrago is a pile of odds and ends or a random assortment of stuff.
If your teacher said your paper was a farrago of thoughts, that's not good: a farrago is a disorganized mix of things that don't fit together. Farrago sounds more formal than hodgepodge or mishmash, but it means about the same thing. A flea market usually features a farrago of antiques and old junk. And kids get a farrago of treats — chocolates, lollipops, the occasional box of raisins — on Halloween.
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a motley assortment of thingssynonyms: gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbagtype of:assortment, medley, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, varietya collection containing a variety of sorts of things
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After signing up as a sailor on the Pequod, Ishmael discovers that Captain Ahab, unlike his crew, does not hunt a whale to make money off its oil, but rather, to get revenge for his lost leg.
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