GRE Word List
BESIEGE
to surround with armed forces
The meaning of the word besiege is to surround with armed forces.
Random words
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| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| vendetta | blood feud |
| raiment | clothing |
| craft | skill in planning, making, or executing : dexterity |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |