GRE Word List

PENSIVE

musingly or dreamily thoughtful

The meaning of the word pensive is musingly or dreamily thoughtful.

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anecdotea usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident
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chicanerydeception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery
counterpartone of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate
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