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 |
|---|---|
| inception | an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| polarize | to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| psychosomatic | of, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body |
| diatribe | a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |