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 |
|---|---|
| exemplify | to show or illustrate by example |
| vivacious | lively in temper, conduct, or spirit : sprightly |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| spat | squabble; minor dispute; minor quarrel |
| nourishment | food |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| circlet | a little circle |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |