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 |
|---|---|
| fortuitous | occurring by chance |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| venture | to proceed especially in the face of danger |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
| low | having a small upward extension or elevation |