GRE Word List
MUSE
to become absorbed in thought
The meaning of the word muse is to become absorbed in thought.
Random words
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| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| implode | to burst inward |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |