GRE Word List
TRIVIA
unimportant matters : trivial facts or details
The meaning of the word trivia is unimportant matters : trivial facts or details.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| vitreous | resembling glass (as in color, composition, brittleness, or luster) : glassy |
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| spasmodic | relating to or affected or characterized by spasm |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| disaffected | discontented and resentful especially against authority : rebellious |
| serenity | the quality or state of being serene |