GRE Word List

PENSIVE

musingly or dreamily thoughtful

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

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mandatean authoritative command
honeto sharpen or smooth with a whetstone
adulationextreme or excessive admiration or flattery
hue_and_cryoutcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule
sporadicoccurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances
indeterminatenot definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague
commemorateto call to remembrance
isotopeany of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties
ovoidresembling an egg in shape : ovate
susceptiblecapable of submitting to an action, process, or operation