GRE Word List
TAWDRY
cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality
The meaning of the word tawdry is cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| fake | not true, real, or genuine : counterfeit |