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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componenta constituent part : ingredient
impartto give, convey, or grant from or as if from a store
incarnateinvested with bodily and especially human nature and form
inhibitedto prohibit from doing something
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razeto destroy to the ground : demolish
notorietythe quality or state of being notorious
nurturetraining
palettea thin oval or rectangular board or tablet that a painter holds and mixes pigments on
facileeasily accomplished or attained