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 |
|---|---|
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
| exclaim | to cry out or speak in strong or sudden emotion |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| pacify | to allay the anger or agitation of : soothe |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |