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 |
|---|---|
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| malodorous | having a bad odor |
| motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |
| unfrock | defrock |
| demise | death |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| dawdle | to spend time idly |