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 |
|---|---|
| residual | remainder |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| commonwealth | a nation, state, or other political unit: such as |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| murmur | a half-suppressed or muttered complaint : grumbling |
| juridical | of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |