GRE Word List
TRINKET
a small ornament (such as a jewel or ring)
The meaning of the word trinket is a small ornament (such as a jewel or ring).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| remunerative | serving to remunerate |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
| onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss) |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |