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 |
|---|---|
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| thesis | a dissertation embodying results of original research and especially substantiating a specific view |