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 |
|---|---|
| terse | using few words : devoid of superfluity |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| ruddy | having a healthy reddish color |
| selective | of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |