GRE Word List
ENCROACHMENT
to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another
The meaning of the word encroachment is to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another.
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|---|---|
| ruthless | having no pity : merciless |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| antecede | precede |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| tender | marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions : fond |
| juncture | a point of time |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| leash | a line for leading or restraining an animal |
| compact | predominantly formed or filled : composed |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |