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.
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| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
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| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| fulsome | characterized by abundance : copious |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
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| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |