GRE Word List
TAWDRY
cheap and gaudy; Ex. tawdry jewelry
The meaning of the word tawdry is cheap and gaudy; Ex. tawdry jewelry.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| amenities | convenient features that helps to make life pleasant; social courtesies |
| leery | (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious |
| elusive | evasive; not frank; baffling; hard to grasp, catch, or understand; V. elude: escape from; escape the understanding or grasp of; Ex. elude the hunter; Ex. His name eludes me. |
| musty | stale (in odor or taste); spoiled by age; CF. moist |
| curmudgeon | churlish, miserly individual; bad-tempered old person |
| courier | messenger |
| foible | small weakness of character; slight fault; CF. feeble |
| lilliputian | extremely small; CF. Lilliput in Gulliver's Travels |
| firebrand | piece of burning wood; hothead; troublemaker; person who stirs up trouble |
| antler | bony growth on the head of a deer |