GRE Word List
BELEAGUER
besiege
The meaning of the word beleaguer is besiege.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| 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 |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| indecision | a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |