GRE Word List
CLICHE
a trite phrase or expression
The meaning of the word cliche is a trite phrase or expression.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bauble | trinket |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| pucker | to become wrinkled or constricted |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| dowse | to plunge into water |