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 |
|---|---|
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| feint | something feigned |
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| quench | put out |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
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| cathartic | of, relating to, or producing catharsis |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |