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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indulgent | willing to allow excessive leniency, generosity, or consideration : indulging or characterized by indulgence |
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
| amplify | to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| outlook | a place offering a view |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| ram | a male sheep |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| scourge | whip |