GRE Word List
BIVOUAC
a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter
The meaning of the word bivouac is a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| oversee | survey |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| mat | a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |