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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WordMeaning
inexorablenot to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless
teneta principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true
miteany of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
luxuriateto grow profusely : thrive
embezzlementto appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
detonationthe action or process of detonating
digressionthe act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work
mashto reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
hideousoffensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly