GRE Word List
PERUSE
to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study
The meaning of the word peruse is to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| statute | a law enacted by the legislative branch of a government |
| cipher | zero |
| modish | fashionable |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| fritter | a small mass of fried or sautéed batter often containing fruit or meat |