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 |
|---|---|
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| pomposity | pompous demeanor, speech, or behavior |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| imply | to express indirectly |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| faculty | ability |
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |