GRE Word List
ENCUMBER
weigh down
The meaning of the word encumber is weigh down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| tatter | to make ragged |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| jumble | to move in a confused or disordered manner |
| arroyo | a watercourse (such as a creek) in an arid region |
| prudent | characterized by, arising from, or showing prudence: such as |
| asunder | into parts |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |