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 |
|---|---|
| chip | a small usually thin and flat piece (as of wood or stone) cut, struck, or flaked off |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| chase | the hunting of wild animals |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert |
| incarnation | the act of incarnating : the state of being incarnate |