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 |
|---|---|
| weary | exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness |
| combustible | capable of combustion |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| azure | the blue color of the clear sky |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |