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 |
|---|---|
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| bout | a spell or period of activity: such as |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| sylvan | one that frequents groves or woods |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |