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 |
|---|---|
| wistful | full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy |
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| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| impromptu | made, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment : improvised |
| throes | pang |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| egress | a place or means of going out : exit |
| variegated | having discrete markings of different colors |