GRE Word List
BELEAGUER
besiege
The meaning of the word beleaguer is besiege.
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miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
heterodox | contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion : unorthodox |
disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |
assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |
proletarian | a member of the proletariat |
headstrong | not easily restrained : impatient of control, advice, or suggestions |
malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
stringent | tight |