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 |
|---|---|
| dogged | marked by stubborn determination |
| glare | to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| rejuvenate | to make young or youthful again : give new vigor to |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| reimburse | to pay back to someone : repay |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |