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
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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 |