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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brawnthe flesh of a boar
honeto sharpen or smooth with a whetstone
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delveexcavate
palatethe roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate
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leerysuspicious
fiatan authoritative or arbitrary order : decree
etymologythe 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
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