GRE Word List

NIGGLE

trifle

The meaning of the word niggle is trifle.

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WordMeaning
flotsamfloating wreckage of a ship or its cargo
vetoan authoritative prohibition : interdiction
avengeto take vengeance for or on behalf of
quibbleto evade the point of an argument by caviling about words
ornatemarked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric
empiricaloriginating in or based on observation or experience
similea figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor
eclipticof or relating to the ecliptic or an eclipse
homagea feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord
exertionthe act or an instance of exerting