GRE Word List
TRAVESTY
a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation
The meaning of the word travesty is a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| thespian | actor |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| singular | of or relating to a separate person or thing : individual |
| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |