GRE Word List
BESET
to set or stud with or as if with ornaments
The meaning of the word beset is to set or stud with or as if with ornaments.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |
| stigma | a mark of shame or discredit : stain |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| slander | to utter slander against : defame |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |
| vulgar | lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste : coarse |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |