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 |
|---|---|
| clime | climate |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |