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 |
|---|---|
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| provenance | origin |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
| insurgent | a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| jaundice | yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| defoliate | to deprive of leaves especially prematurely |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |