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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| raffle | to engage in a raffle |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| tribunal | a court or forum of justice |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| pastiche | a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| abscond | to depart secretly and hide oneself |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| distinctive | marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish |