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 |
|---|---|
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
| prurient | marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire |
| vulgar | lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste : coarse |
| rustic | of, relating to, or suitable for the country : rural |
| jollity | the quality or state of being jolly : merriment |
| oaf | a stupid person : boob |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| beleaguer | besiege |