GRE Word List
HACKNEYED
lacking in freshness or originality
The meaning of the word hackneyed is lacking in freshness or originality.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| 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 |
| fluster | to put into a state of agitated confusion : upset |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |
| dupe | one that is easily deceived or cheated : fool |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| gobble | to swallow or eat greedily |
| aviary | a place for keeping birds confined |
| replicate | duplicate |
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |