GRE Word List
CAPRICE
a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action
The meaning of the word caprice is a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| fuss: | trouble or worry over trifles; make nervous; pay too much attention to; N: needless concern or worry (about a trivial thing); anxious nervous condition; display of attention; Ex. make a fuss over the baby |
| affliction | a cause of persistent pain or distress |
| 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 |
| magisterial | of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a master or teacher : authoritative |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| bigotry | obstinate or intolerant devotion to one's own opinions and prejudices : the state of mind of a bigot |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| selective | of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select |