GRE Word List

MUSE

to become absorbed in thought

The meaning of the word muse is to become absorbed in thought.

Random words

WordMeaning
obtusenot pointed or acute : blunt
migratoryof, relating to, or characterized by migration
centigraderelating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point
rhetoricthe art of speaking or writing effectively: such as
bludgeona short stick that usually has one thick or loaded end and is used as a weapon
waverto vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction
spectruma continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order
secularof or relating to the worldly or temporal
quibbleto evade the point of an argument by caviling about words
potablesuitable for drinking