GRE Word List
TRIFLE
something of little value, substance, or importance
The meaning of the word trifle is something of little value, substance, or importance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ravenous | rapacious |
| gamut | the whole series of recognized musical notes |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |
| impede | to interfere with or slow the progress of |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |