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.
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| anomalous | inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected : irregular |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| percussion | the act of percussing: such as |
| wallow | to roll oneself about in a lazy, relaxed, or ungainly manner |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |
| affliction | a cause of persistent pain or distress |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |