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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| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| evince | to constitute outward evidence of |
| excoriate | to wear off the skin of : abrade |
| militant | engaged in warfare or combat : fighting |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |