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 |
|---|---|
| mediocre | of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance : ordinary |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| institution | an established organization or corporation (such as a bank or university) especially of a public character |
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
| venturesome | inclined to court or incur risk or danger : daring |
| placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| dissolution | the act or process of dissolving: such as |