GRE Word List
PETTY
having secondary rank or importance : minor
The meaning of the word petty is having secondary rank or importance : minor.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| flux | a flowing of fluid from the body: such as |
| scion | descendant |
| poise | balance |
| mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| immobility | not moving : motionless |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |