GRE Word List
IMMURE
to enclose within or as if within walls
The meaning of the word immure is to enclose within or as if within walls.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retract | to draw back or in |
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |
| 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 |
| canker | an erosive or spreading sore |
| titillate | to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation |
| ichthyology | a branch of zoology that deals with fishes |
| secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement |
| junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |
| consort | associate |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |