GRE Word List
PENSIVE
musingly or dreamily thoughtful
The meaning of the word pensive is musingly or dreamily thoughtful.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| protean | of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| wanton | merciless |