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 |
|---|---|
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| internecine | of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group |
| crave | to ask for earnestly : beg |
| regiment | a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions |