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 |
|---|---|
| frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |