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 |
|---|---|
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| savor | the taste or smell of something |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| pariah | a member of a low caste of southern India |
| protract | to prolong in time or space : continue |