GRE Word List
CAVIL
to raise trivial and frivolous objection
The meaning of the word cavil is to raise trivial and frivolous objection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| invert | to reverse in position, order, or relationship |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| aplomb | complete and confident composure or self-assurance : poise |
| herald | an official at a tournament of arms (see arm |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| mnemonic | assisting or intended to assist memory |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |