GRE Word List
MINUTIAE
a minute or minor detail
The meaning of the word minutiae is a minute or minor detail.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| slake | subside |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| ford | a shallow part of a body of water that may be crossed by wading |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| aureole | a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| concordat | compact |