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 |
|---|---|
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| seethe | to suffer violent internal excitement |
| repulse | to drive or beat back : repel |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |