GRE Word List
ENCIRCLE
to form a circle around : surround
The meaning of the word encircle is to form a circle around : surround.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repercussion | reflection |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| facade | the front of a building |
| tarnish | to dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| replete | fully or abundantly provided or filled |