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 |
|---|---|
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| sumptuous | extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| igneous | formed by solidification of magma |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| marrow | bone marrow |