GRE Word List
PENSIVE
musingly or dreamily thoughtful
The meaning of the word pensive is musingly or dreamily thoughtful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| artisan | a worker who practices a trade or handicraft : craftsperson |
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |