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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| saunter | to walk about in an idle or leisurely manner : stroll |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| institute | something that is instituted: such as |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |