GRE Word List
HACKNEYED
lacking in freshness or originality
The meaning of the word hackneyed is lacking in freshness or originality.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| fell | skin |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| nib | bill |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |