GRE Word List
BANAL
lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite
The meaning of the word banal is lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| jibe | to be in accord : agree |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| magnate | a person of rank, power, influence, or distinction often in a specified area |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| spoilsport | one who spoils the sport or pleasure of others |
| chortle | to sing or chant exultantly |
| doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |