GRE Word List
PETTY
having secondary rank or importance : minor
The meaning of the word petty is having secondary rank or importance : minor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| impart | to give, convey, or grant from or as if from a store |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| lax | loose |
| debunk | to expose the sham (see sham |