GRE Word List
MINUTIAE
a minute or minor detail
The meaning of the word minutiae is a minute or minor detail.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perceptive | responsive to sensory stimuli : discerning |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| natation | the action or art of swimming |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| whittle | a large knife |
| fake | not true, real, or genuine : counterfeit |
| stigma | a mark of shame or discredit : stain |
| venal | capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration : purchasable |