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 |
|---|---|
| incidental | being likely to ensue as a chance or minor consequence |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| scuttle | a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce) |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| adherent | one who adheres to something: such as |
| impregnate | to cause to be filled, imbued, permeated, or saturated |
| rational | having reason or understanding |
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |