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 |
|---|---|
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |
| nutrition | the act or process of nourishing or being nourished |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| concordat | compact |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| beguile | hoodwink |