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 |
|---|---|
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| dexterous | mentally adroit and skillful : clever |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| funereal | of or relating to a funeral |
| cremate | to subject to cremation |
| prominent | standing out or projecting beyond a surface or line : protuberant |
| virtuoso | one who excels in the technique of an art |
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |