trivia
small facts or bits of minor information
Roots
- triv / trivium: three-road crossroads, commonplace things, or small everyday matters
- via: way, road, path, or course
Other words with the triv / trivium root
- trivial: of little importance or too minor to matter
Other words with the via root
- deviate: to depart from a path, rule, or pattern
- impervious: not allowing anything through
- obviate: to make unnecessary by preventing or removing the need
- trivial: of little importance or too minor to matter
- via: by way of; through
Trivia keeps the old public-crossroads feeling: small facts picked up where many paths meet.
The review session began with trivia before turning to the harder words.
Trivia and trivial both come through the trivium, a place where three roads met. Keep the image simple: common talk at a common crossing became small common facts.