GRE Word List
WHIMSY
whim
The meaning of the word whimsy is whim.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| libertine | a freethinker especially in religious matters |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| incidental | being likely to ensue as a chance or minor consequence |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| vilify | to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame |
| scrimmage | a minor battle : skirmish |