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 |
|---|---|
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| immune | not susceptible or responsive |
| notoriety | the quality or state of being notorious |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| brazen | made of brass |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| enterprise | a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky |