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 |
|---|---|
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| crone | a cruel or ugly old woman |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| grotto | cave |
| kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |