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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sear | being dried and withered |
| aloof | removed or distant either physically or emotionally |
| pontifical | episcopal attire |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |