GRE Word List
BESIEGE
to surround with armed forces
The meaning of the word besiege is to surround with armed forces.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| yen | a strong desire or propensity |
| fuss: | trouble or worry over trifles; make nervous; pay too much attention to; N: needless concern or worry (about a trivial thing); anxious nervous condition; display of attention; Ex. make a fuss over the baby |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| sentinel | sentry |
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
| rebuttal | the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit |