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 |
|---|---|
| putrid | being in a state of putrefaction : rotten |
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| graduated | marked with divisions indicating degrees or units of measurement |
| pucker | to become wrinkled or constricted |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| title | the distinguishing name of a written, printed, or filmed production |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |