GRE Word List
CIRCUMSCRIBE
to constrict (see constrict
The meaning of the word circumscribe is to constrict (see constrict.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| postulate | demand |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| forebears | ancestor |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| tome | book |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| raffle | to engage in a raffle |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |