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 |
|---|---|
| psychiatrist | a medical doctor who diagnoses and treats mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders : a specialist in psychiatry |
| nebulous | of, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| problematic | posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| psychopathic | of, relating to, or characterized by psychopathy |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |