GRE Word List
HACKNEYED
lacking in freshness or originality
The meaning of the word hackneyed is lacking in freshness or originality.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| encroachment | to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another |
| delve | excavate |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| leery | suspicious |
| fiat | an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |