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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WordMeaning
decorumliterary and dramatic propriety : fitness
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knolla small round hill : mound
gauchelacking social experience or grace
scrimmagea minor battle : skirmish
ethnologya branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures
posthumousborn after the death of the father
repealto rescind or annul by authoritative act
dorsalan ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar