GRE Word List
REVERIE
daydream; abstracted musing
The meaning of the word reverie is daydream; abstracted musing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| presentiment | premonition; foreboding; feeling something will happen; anticipatory fear |
| perfunctory | done routinely and with little care; superficial; not thorough; lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; Ex. perfunctory kiss |
| solicitous | anxious; worried; concerned; eager; Ex. solicitous to do something; N. solicitude |
| subsistence | existence; means of subsisting; means of support; livelihood; V. subsist: exist; maintain life (at a meager level) |
| humanitarian | one devoted to the promotion of human welfare; CF. humanism |
| hybrid | mongrel; mixed breed; V. hybridize |
| vantage | position giving an advantage (such as a strategic point); CF. vantagepoint |
| requisite | necessary requirement; something required; ADJ: required; necessary |
| apparent | evident; easily seen or understood; appearing as such; Ex. apparent improvement |
| billow | large wave of water; a great swell or surge (of smoke); V: surge, swell, roll in billows |