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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| headstrong | not easily restrained : impatient of control, advice, or suggestions |
| dilute | attenuate |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| percussion | the act of percussing: such as |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| egress | a place or means of going out : exit |
| emulate | to strive to equal or excel |
| minatory | having a menacing quality |