GRE Word List
WHIM
a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy
The meaning of the word whim is a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| politic | political |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
| provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |