GRE Word List
BANAL
lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite
The meaning of the word banal is lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| frenetic | marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| avow | to declare assuredly |
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |