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 |
|---|---|
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| provenance | origin |
| maritime | of, relating to, or bordering on the sea |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| bereft | deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| philistine | a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia |
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