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 |
|---|---|
| civil | of or relating to citizens |
| menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| whinny | to neigh especially in a low or gentle way |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| benefactor | someone or something that provides help or an advantage : one that confers a benefit |
| willowy | abounding with willows |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |