GRE Word List
CLICHE
a trite phrase or expression
The meaning of the word cliche is a trite phrase or expression.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unequivocal | leaving no doubt : clear |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| fancied | imagined or believed to be true or real |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| premonition | previous notice or warning : forewarning |
| astigmatism | a defect of an optical system (such as a lens) causing rays from a point to fail to meet in a focal point resulting in a blurred and imperfect image |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |