GRE Word List
NIGGLE
trifle
The meaning of the word niggle is trifle.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| draft | the act of drawing or pulling in a net |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |