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 |
|---|---|
| hortatory | hortative |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| temper | heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion |
| propensity | an often intense natural inclination or preference |
| bantering | to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner |
| philology | the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature |
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
| beatitude | a state of utmost bliss |