GRE Word List
FANCIFUL
marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience
The meaning of the word fanciful is marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| climactic | of, relating to, or constituting a climax |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |