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 |
|---|---|
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |
| natation | the action or art of swimming |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| imperturbable | marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness : serene |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| execute | to carry out fully : put completely into effect |
| wrest | to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| indolent | averse to activity, effort, or movement : habitually lazy |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |