GRE Word List
COGITATE
to ponder or meditate on usually intently
The meaning of the word cogitate is to ponder or meditate on usually intently.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| demagogue | a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power |
| impinge | encroach |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |