GRE Word List
BELEAGUER
besiege
The meaning of the word beleaguer is besiege.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| explicate | to give a detailed explanation of |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| dissolution | the act or process of dissolving: such as |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| aplomb | complete and confident composure or self-assurance : poise |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| unfrock | defrock |