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 |
|---|---|
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| pendulous | poised without visible support |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| pinion | the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges |