GRE Word List
ENCUMBER
weigh down
The meaning of the word encumber is weigh down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| constituent | a member of a constituency |
| trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| natty | trimly neat and tidy : smart |
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| scabbard | a sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet |