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 |
|---|---|
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| fussy | easily upset : irritable |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| rout | a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| distort | to twist (see twist |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |