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 |
|---|---|
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| falter | to walk unsteadily : stumble |
| churlish | of, resembling, or characteristic of a churl : vulgar |
| precise | exactly or sharply defined or stated |
| divine | of, relating to, or proceeding directly from God (see god |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |