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 |
|---|---|
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| stupefy | to make stupid, groggy, or insensible |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| regeneration | an act or the process of regenerating : the state of being regenerated |
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |
| inception | an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |