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 |
|---|---|
| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
| engulf | to flow over and enclose : overwhelm |
| amplify | to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| decry | to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| tarnish | to dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil |