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.

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WordMeaning
knella stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster)
denounceto pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil
irrelevantnot relevant : inapplicable
futileserving no useful purpose : completely ineffective
hirelinga person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives
pyromaniaca person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania
ephemerallasting a very short time
inestimableincapable of being estimated or computed
responsivenessgiving response : constituting a response : answering
patriciana member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome