GRE Word List
FASTIDIOUS
showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care
The meaning of the word fastidious is showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| befuddle | to muddle or stupefy with or as if with drink |
| random | a haphazard course |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |