GRE Word List
PLATITUDE
the quality or state of being dull or insipid
The meaning of the word platitude is the quality or state of being dull or insipid.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lubricate | to make smooth or slippery |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| excoriate | to wear off the skin of : abrade |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| dynamo | generator |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |