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 |
|---|---|
| wistful | full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy |
| sublimate | sublime |
| propulsive | tending or having power to propel |
| fictitious | of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| distinct | distinguishable to the eye or mind as being discrete (see discrete |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |