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 |
|---|---|
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| illusion | a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion |
| sidetrack | siding |
| quench | put out |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| conformity | correspondence in form, manner, or character : agreement |
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |