GRE Word List
ENCUMBER
weigh down
The meaning of the word encumber is weigh down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| edifice | building |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| lope | an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |