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 |
|---|---|
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| unexceptionable | not open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable |
| pretend | to give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing |
| shift | to exchange for or replace by another : change |
| lethargic | of, relating to, or characterized by laziness or lack of energy : feeling or affected by lethargy : sluggish |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |