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 |
|---|---|
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| adhere | to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| gazette | newspaper |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| remediable | capable of being remedied |
| exhort | to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| spoof | deceive |