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 |
|---|---|
| enterprise | a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| plumber | a dealer or worker in lead |
| modish | fashionable |
| chisel | a metal tool with a sharpened edge at one end used to chip, carve, or cut into a solid material (such as wood, stone, or metal) |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
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| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |