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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unsavory | insipid |
decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
mendacious | given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth |
shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
flick | a light sharp jerky stroke or movement |
abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |