Differing and Assorted

verb

• Keep company with; hang out with.
  • usage: "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues"
  • synonyms: consort, associate, affiliate, assort
• Arrange or order by classes or categories.
  • usage: "How would you classify these pottery shards-are they prehistoric"
  • synonyms: classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate

adjective

• Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds."an arrangement of assorted spring flowers"; "assorted sizes"; "miscellaneous accessories"; "a mixed program of baroque and contemporary music"; "a motley crew"; "sundry sciences commonly known as social- I. A. Richards
  • synonyms: miscellaneous, mixed, motley, sundry
• Of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity.
  • usage: "assorted sizes"; "his disguises are many and various"; "various experiments have failed to disprove the theory"; "cited various reasons for his behavior"
  • synonyms: various

• (imp.&p.p.) of Assort.
• (a.) Selected; culled.