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 |
|---|---|
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| 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 |
| shoddy | a reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo |