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 |
|---|---|
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| gambol | to skip about in play : frisk |
| gloss | a surface luster or brightness : shine |
| obnoxious | odiously or disgustingly objectionable : highly offensive |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
| upright | perpendicular |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| blowhard | an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |