GRE Word List
MUSE
to become absorbed in thought
The meaning of the word muse is to become absorbed in thought.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prurient | marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| genre | a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| thematic | of, relating to, or constituting a theme |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |