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 |
|---|---|
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |
| minuscule | very small |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| accord | to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |