GRE Word List

CHIMERICAL

existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary

The meaning of the word chimerical is existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary.

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motifa usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts)
craftskill in planning, making, or executing : dexterity
schemea plan or program of action
prevaricateto deviate from the truth : equivocate
rebateto reduce the force or activity of : diminish
capriciousgoverned or characterized by caprice : impulsive
laconicusing or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious
vagrantone who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support
latentpresent and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic
flaila hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely