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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| crescendo | a gradual increase |
| fervid | very hot : burning |
| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |
| chronic | continuing or occurring again and again for a long time |
| renown | a state of being widely acclaimed and highly honored : fame |