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 |
|---|---|
| grandeur | the quality or state of being grand : magnificence |
| motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| finesse | refinement or delicacy of workmanship, structure, or texture |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |
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