GRE Word List
MUSE
to become absorbed in thought
The meaning of the word muse is to become absorbed in thought.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prattle | prate |
| insolence | the quality or state of being insolent |
| fumble | to grope for or handle something clumsily or aimlessly |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| bask | to lie or relax in a pleasant warmth or atmosphere |
| 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 |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| culprit | one accused of or charged with a crime |