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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trappings | outward signs |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| habituate | to make used to something : accustom |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| sophist | philosopher |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| grotto | cave |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| astringent | causing a tightening of soft organic tissues : styptic |