GRE Word List
TRITE
hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original
The meaning of the word trite is hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| lampoon | satire |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| mulct | fine |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |