GRE Word List
WHIMSICAL
resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice
The meaning of the word whimsical is resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antiquity | ancient times |
| ostentatious | attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to a wife |
| equine | of, relating to, or resembling a horse or the horse family |
| implication | something implied: such as |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| 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 |
| expatriate | banish |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |