GRE Word List
PENSIVE
musingly or dreamily thoughtful
The meaning of the word pensive is musingly or dreamily thoughtful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
| archives | a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| impertinent | given to or characterized by insolent rudeness |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |