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 |
|---|---|
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| repellent | serving or tending to drive away or ward off |
| dingy | dirty |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| pulmonary | of, relating to, affecting, or occurring in the lungs |
| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |