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 |
|---|---|
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| pundit | pandit |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| intangible | not tangible : impalpable |
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| arid | excessively dry |