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 |
|---|---|
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| respite | a period of temporary delay |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| fruition | pleasurable use or possession : enjoyment |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language: |
| demolition | the act of demolishing |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |