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 |
|---|---|
| abet | to actively second and encourage (something, such as an activity or plan) |
| renown | a state of being widely acclaimed and highly honored : fame |
| demure | reserved |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
| chorus | a company of singers and dancers in Athenian drama participating in or commenting on the action |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| fanfare | a short and lively sounding of trumpets |