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 |
|---|---|
| laceration | the act of lacerating |
| postmortem | done, occurring, or collected after death |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| guileless | innocent |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |