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 |
|---|---|
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| decollete | wearing a strapless or low-necked dress |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| finite | having definite or definable limits |
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |