GRE Word List

NIGGLE

trifle

The meaning of the word niggle is trifle.

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etymologythe 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
jocundmarked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness
pyromaniaca person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania
effectualproducing or able to produce a desired effect
furrowa trench in the earth made by a plow
sheafa quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together
carpingmarked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism
imposturethe act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name
draftthe act of drawing or pulling in a net
preemptto acquire (something, such as land) by preemption