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 |
|---|---|
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| mandate | an authoritative command |
| terrestrial | of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants |
| welter | writhe |
| entourage | one's attendants or associates |
| vie | to strive for superiority : contend |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| remiss | negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |