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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covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
withhold | to hold back from action : check |
gusty | the sensation of taste |
nomenclature | name |
derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |
alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
irreproachable | not reproachable : blameless |
peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
drama | a composition (see composition |