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 |
|---|---|
| entourage | one's attendants or associates |
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| drama | a composition (see composition |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |