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 |
|---|---|
| desperate | having lost hope |
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |
| superannuated | outmoded |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| bequeath | to give or leave by will (see will |
| terrestrial | of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |