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 |
|---|---|
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| cue | the letter q |
| aggregate | formed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |