GRE Word List
PERUSE
to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study
The meaning of the word peruse is to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| ingrained | forming a part of the essence or inmost being : deep-seated |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| postulate | demand |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| sadistic | of, relating to, or characterized by sadism |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |