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 |
|---|---|
| stilted | pompous |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| overt | open to view : manifest |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |