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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pedagogy | the art, science, or profession of teaching |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| circuitous | having a circular or winding course |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| thematic | of, relating to, or constituting a theme |
| grisly | inspiring horror or intense fear |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| undermine | to subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly |
| swill | wash |