GRE Word List
NOVELTY
something new or unusual
The meaning of the word novelty is something new or unusual.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| breach | infraction or violation of a law, obligation, tie, or standard |
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| impinge | encroach |
| avow | to declare assuredly |
| natty | trimly neat and tidy : smart |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |