GRE Word List
MAWKISH
lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste
The meaning of the word mawkish is lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| retrench | cut down |
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| superannuated | outmoded |
| canine | a conical pointed tooth |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |