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 |
|---|---|
| scintilla | spark |
| bust | a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| unfaltering | not wavering or weakening : firm |
| madrigal | a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
| cremate | to subject to cremation |