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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evanescenttending to vanish like vapor
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throttleto compress the throat of : choke
institutesomething that is instituted: such as
veritablebeing in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary