GRE Word List
BESIEGE
to surround with armed forces
The meaning of the word besiege is to surround with armed forces.
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|---|---|
| relent | to become less severe, harsh, or strict usually from reasons of humanity |
| methodical | arranged, characterized by, or performed with method or order |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| incumbent | the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| demerit | offense |
| glimmer | to shine faintly or unsteadily |