GRE Word List
RUMINATE
to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly
The meaning of the word ruminate is to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| hypochondriac | hypochondriacal |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| equilibrium | a state of intellectual or emotional balance : poise |
| refurbish | to brighten or freshen up : renovate |
| underhand | in a clandestine manner |
| 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 |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| congenital | existing at or dating from birth |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |