GRE Word List
PENSIVE
musingly or dreamily thoughtful
The meaning of the word pensive is musingly or dreamily thoughtful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fusillade | a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession |
| enervate | lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor : enervated |
| brand | a charred piece of wood |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| hap | happening |
| madrigal | a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form |
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |
| incoherent | lacking coherence: such as |
| wake | to be or remain awake |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |