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Pensive 1100 Words You Need Week 35 Day 4

Pensive 1100 Words You Need Week 35 Day 4

Pensive 1100 Words You Need Week 35 Day 4

/ˈpent.sɪv/ (adj)

thinking deeply in a quiet manner, reflective, engaged in deep thought, thoughtful, contemplative, meditative, introspective, ruminative, preoccupied, lost in thought, brooding, pondering, absorbed

Sitting among them as they gawked over the arousing scenes, a flood of emotions made him pensive as he tried to ignore the excited faces of the other boys. He felt uneasy but appeared excited about by what he was watching. The others cheered and swooned.

Source: The book: TGT By Randolph Christopher Longstreet

Antonym: thoughtless, mindless, brainless, inconsiderate

Noun: pensiveness

Adverb: pensively

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