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 |
|---|---|
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| 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 |
| luxuriate | to grow profusely : thrive |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |
| digression | the 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 |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |