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 |
|---|---|
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |
| malady | a disease or disorder of the animal body |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |