GRE Word List
TRIVIA
unimportant matters : trivial facts or details
The meaning of the word trivia is unimportant matters : trivial facts or details.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| tertiary | of third rank, importance, or value |
| chore | the regular or daily light work of a household or farm |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |