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 |
|---|---|
| roster | a roll or list of personnel |
| shack | hut |
| belated | delayed beyond the usual time |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| transcribe | to make a written copy of |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |