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 |
|---|---|
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement |
| pucker | to become wrinkled or constricted |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| creep | to move along with the body prone and close to the ground |