SAT vocabulary
Figment
a thing that someone believes to be real but that exists only in their imagination.
Example
"The monster under the bed turned out to be a figment of the child's vivid imagination."
Etymology
From Latin 'figmentum', meaning 'a formation, a fiction', from 'fingere' (to form, to feign).
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